Discovery Box| (0.22) | Jdg 20:4 |
| The Levite, 1 the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in 2 Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin 3 to spend the night. |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:5 |
| The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. 1 They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died. |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:6 |
| I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces 1 throughout the territory occupied by Israel, 2 because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity 3 in Israel. |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:15 |
| That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. 1 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:18 |
| The Israelites went up to Bethel 1 and asked God, 2 “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” 3 The Lord said, “Judah should lead.” |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:23 |
| The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we 1 again march out to fight 2 the Benjaminites, our brothers?” 3 The Lord said, “Attack them!” 4 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:25 |
| The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. 1 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:26 |
| So all the Israelites, the whole army, 1 went up to 2 Bethel. 3 They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything 4 that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace 5 to the Lord. |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:32 |
| Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat 1 and lure them 2 away from the city into the main roads.” |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:33 |
| 1 All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah. |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:34 |
| Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah – the battle was fierce. 1 But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep. 2 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:35 |
| The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. 1 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:36 |
| Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated. The Israelites retreated before 1 Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah. |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:39 |
| the Israelites counterattacked. 1 Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; 2 they struck down 3 about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.” |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:40 |
| But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky. 1 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:42 |
| They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook 1 them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. 2 |
| (0.22) | Jdg 20:45 |
| The rest 1 turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites 2 caught 3 five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels 4 all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more. |
| (0.22) | 1Sa 1:20 |
| After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him. 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Sa 2:20 |
| Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying, “May the Lord raise up for you descendants 1 from this woman to replace the one that she 2 dedicated to the Lord.” Then they would go to their 3 home. |
| (0.22) | 1Sa 4:20 |
| As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, “Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention. 1 |
