1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

Judges 20

1 The Levite in a general assembly declareth his wrong. 8 The decree of the assembly. 12 The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites. 18 The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand. 26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites except six hundred.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:1 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:1 Comments and Study Notes 20:1 ¶ Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together as one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:2 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:2 Comments and Study Notes 20:2 And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel, met together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen fit for war.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:3 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:3 Comments and Study Notes 20:3 (Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of Israel were come up to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was killed being asked, how so great a wickedness had been committed,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:4 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:4 Comments and Study Notes 20:4 Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there I lodged:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:5 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:5 Comments and Study Notes 20:5 And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:6 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:6 Comments and Study Notes 20:6 And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the parts into all the borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a crime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:7 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:7 Comments and Study Notes 20:7 You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought to do.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:8 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:8 Comments and Study Notes 20:8 ¶ And all the people standing, answered as by the voice of one man: We will not return to our tents, neither shall any one of us go into his own house:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:9 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:9 Comments and Study Notes 20:9 But this we will do in common against Gabaa:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:10 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:10 Comments and Study Notes 20:10 We will take ten men of a hundred out of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring victuals for the army, that we may fight against Gabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for its wickedness, what it deserveth.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:11 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:11 Comments and Study Notes 20:11 And all Israel were gathered together against the city, as one man, with one mind, and one counsel:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:12 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:12 Comments and Study Notes 20:12 ¶ And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin, to say to them: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you?

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:13 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:13 Comments and Study Notes 20:13 Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have committed this heinous crime, that they may die, and the evil may be taken away out of Israel. But they would not hearken to the proposition of their brethren the children of Israel:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:14 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:14 Comments and Study Notes 20:14 But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered themselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the whole people of Israel.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:15 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:15 Comments and Study Notes 20:15 And there were found of Benjamin five and twenty thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:16 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:16 Comments and Study Notes 20:16 Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either side.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:17 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:17 Comments and Study Notes 20:17 Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were found four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to fight.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:18 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:18 Comments and Study Notes 20:18 ¶ And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to go to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your leader.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:19 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:19 Comments and Study Notes 20:19 And forthwith the children of Israel rising in the morning, camped by Gabaa:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:20 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:20 Comments and Study Notes 20:20 And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to assault the city.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:21 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:21 Comments and Study Notes 20:21 And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:22 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:22 Comments and Study Notes 20:22 Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:23 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:23 Comments and Study Notes 20:23 Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until night: and consulted him and said: Shall I go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin my brethren or not? And he answered them: Go up against them, and join battle.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:24 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:24 Comments and Study Notes 20:24 And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight against the children of Benjamin,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:25 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:25 Comments and Study Notes 20:25 The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of Gabaa: and meeting them, made so great a slaughter of them, as to kill eighteen thousand men that drew the sword.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:26 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:26 Comments and Study Notes 20:26 ¶ Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God, and sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:27 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:27 Comments and Study Notes 20:27 And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark of the covenant of the Lord was there,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:28 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:28 Comments and Study Notes 20:28 And Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was over the house. So they consulted the Lord, and said: Shall we go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin, our brethren, or shall we cease? And the Lord said to them: Go up, for to morrow I will deliver them into your hands.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:29 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:29 Comments and Study Notes 20:29 And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:30 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:30 Comments and Study Notes 20:30 And they drew up their army against Benjamin the third time, as they had done the first and second.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:31 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:31 Comments and Study Notes 20:31 And the children of Benjamin boldly issued out of the city, and seeing their enemies flee, pursued them a long way, so as to wound and kill some of them, as they had done the first and second day, whilst they fled by two highways, whereof one goeth up to Bethel and the other to Gabaa, and they slew about thirty men:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:32 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:32 Comments and Study Notes 20:32 For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city, and by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:33 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:33 Comments and Study Notes 20:33 Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places where they were, set their army in battle array, in the place which is called Baalthamar. The ambushes also, which were about the city, began by little and little to come forth,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:34 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:34 Comments and Study Notes 20:34 And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:35 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:35 Comments and Study Notes 20:35 And the Lord defeated them before the children of Israel, and they slew of them in that day five and twenty thousand, and one hundred, all fighting men, and that drew the sword.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:36 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:36 Comments and Study Notes 20:36 But the children of Benjamin, when they saw themselves to be too weak, began to flee. Which the children of Israel seeing, gave them place to flee, that they might come to the ambushes that were prepared, which they had set near the city.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:37 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:37 Comments and Study Notes 20:37 And they that were in ambush arose on a sudden out of their coverts, and whilst Benjamin turned their backs to the slayers, went into the city, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:38 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:38 Comments and Study Notes 20:38 Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they had laid in ambushes, that after they had taken the city, they should make a fire: that by the smoke rising on high, they might shew that the city was taken.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:39 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:39 Comments and Study Notes 20:39 And when the children of Israel saw this in the battle, (for the children of Benjamin thought they fled, and pursued them vigorously, killing thirty men of their army)

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:40 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:40 Comments and Study Notes 20:40 And perceived, as it were, a pillar of smoke rise up from the city; and Benjamin looking back, saw that the city was taken, and that the flames ascended on high:

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:41 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:41 Comments and Study Notes 20:41 They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces, stood bravely against them. Which the children of Benjamin seeing, turned their backs,

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:42 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:42 Comments and Study Notes 20:42 And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy pursuing them thither also. And they that fired the city came also out to meet them.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:43 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:43 Comments and Study Notes 20:43 And so it was, that they were slain on both sides by the enemies, and there was no rest of their men dying. They fell and were beaten down on the east side of the city of Gabaa.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:44 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:44 Comments and Study Notes 20:44 And they that were slain in the same place, were eighteen thousand men, all most valiant soldiers.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:45 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:45 Comments and Study Notes 20:45 And when they that remained of Benjamin saw this, they fled into the wilderness, and made towards the rock that is called Remmon. In that flight also, as they were straggling, and going different ways; they slew of them five thousand men. And as they went farther, they still pursued them, and slew also other two thousand.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:46 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:46 Comments and Study Notes 20:46 And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin, in divers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant for war.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:47 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:47 Comments and Study Notes 20:47 And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and they abode in the rock Remmon four months.

Online Bible Translations Judges 20:48 DR 1750 Douay Rheims BibleMultiple Bible Verse Judges 20:48 Comments and Study Notes 20:48 But the children of Israel returning, put all the remains of the city to the sword, both men and beasts, and all the cities and villages of Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.

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