Judges 20:37

World English Bible (2000)

The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 8:19 : 19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
  • Exod 19:13 : 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
  • Josh 6:5 : 5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 20:29-36
    8 verses
    88%

    29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

    30The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

    31The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

    32The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

    33All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

    34There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.

    35Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

    36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:38-46
    9 verses
    82%

    38Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

    39The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle."

    40But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.

    41The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.

    42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.

    43They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, [and] trod them down at [their] resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.

    44There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.

    45They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

    46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.

  • Judg 20:9-15
    7 verses
    79%

    9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;

    10and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel."

    11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

    12The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.

    14The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judg 20:25
    76%

    25Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 20:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

    20The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

    21The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

  • Judg 20:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?"

    4The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

    5The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead.

  • Judg 21:20
    75%

    20They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

  • Judg 20:48
    75%

    48The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

  • Judg 9:32
    73%

    32Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

  • Hos 10:9
    72%

    9"Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    71%

    16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.

  • Judg 20:17
    71%

    17The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • Judg 9:43-44
    2 verses
    71%

    43He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.

    44Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.

  • Judg 19:14-16
    3 verses
    71%

    14So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

    15They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

    16Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • 2 Chr 20:22
    71%

    22When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.

  • Judg 9:25
    70%

    25The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

  • Judg 1:8
    70%

    8The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • 2 Sam 2:16
    70%

    16They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

  • Josh 8:19
    69%

    19The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    69%

    16There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.

  • Jer 50:36
    69%

    36A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

  • Judg 16:2
    69%

    2[It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.