Judges 20:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 8:19 : 19 Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.
  • Exod 19:13 : 13 He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.
  • Josh 6:5 : 5 And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 20:29-36
    8 verses
    88%

    29So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.

    30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in fighting order against Gibeah as before.

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.

    33So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.

    34And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.

    35Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

    36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:38-46
    9 verses
    82%

    38Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they made a pillar of smoke go up from the town,

    39The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.

    40Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw all the town going up in smoke to heaven.

    41And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for they saw that evil had overtaken them.

    42So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

    43And crushing Benjamin down, they went after them, driving them from Nohah as far as the east side of Gibeah.

    44Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.

    45And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.

    46So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

  • Judg 20:9-15
    7 verses
    79%

    9But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;

    10And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

    11So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.

    12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

    13Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

    14And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

  • Judg 20:25
    76%

    25And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • Judg 20:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19So the children of Israel got up in the morning and put themselves in position against Gibeah.

    20And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

    21Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

  • Judg 20:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.

    4Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

    5And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.

  • Judg 21:20
    75%

    20And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,

  • Judg 20:48
    75%

    48And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.

  • Judg 9:32
    73%

    32So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;

  • Hos 10:9
    72%

    9O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    71%

    16And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there.

  • Judg 20:17
    71%

    17And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

  • Judg 9:43-44
    2 verses
    71%

    43And he took his people, separating them into three bands, and was waiting secretly in the field; and when he saw the people coming out of the town, he went up and made an attack on them.

    44And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.

  • Judg 19:14-16
    3 verses
    71%

    14So they went on their way; and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.

    15And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

    16Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • 2 Chr 20:22
    71%

    22And at the first notes of song and praise the Lord sent a surprise attack against the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were overcome.

  • Judg 9:25
    70%

    25And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.

  • Judg 1:8
    70%

    8Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

  • 2 Sam 2:16
    70%

    16And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon.

  • Josh 8:19
    69%

    19Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    69%

    16And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

  • Jer 50:36
    69%

    36A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.

  • Judg 16:2
    69%

    2And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.