RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

10 And we will take ten men out of a hundred throughout
all the tribes of Yisrael, and a hundred out of a thousand,
and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch food for the
people, to prepare them, when they come to Givah of
Benyamin, according to all the folly that they have
wrought in Yisrael.
11 So all the men of Yisrael were gathered against the
city, knit together as one man.
12 And the tribes of Yisrael sent men through all the tribe
of Benyamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done
among you?
13 Now therefore deliver to us these men, the children of
Beliyaal, who are in Givah, that we may put them to
death, and put away the evil from Yisrael. But the
children of Benyamin would not listen to the voice of
their brothers the children of Yisrael:
14 But the children of Benyamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities to Givah, to go out to battle
against the children of Yisrael.
15 And the children of Benyamin were numbered at that
time out of the cities twenty six thousand men that drew
the sword, besides the inhabitants of Givah, who were
numbered seven hundred chosen men.
16 Among all the people there were seven hundred
chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones at a
hair’s width, and not miss.
17 And the men of Yisrael, against Benyamin, were
numbered four hundred thousand men that drew the
sword: all these were men of war.
18 And the children of Yisrael arose, and went up to the
Bayit of Elohim, and asked counsel from Elohim, and
said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the
children of Benyamin? And vuvh said, Yahudah shall go
up first.
19 And the children of Yisrael rose up in the morning,
and encamped against Givah.
20 And the men of Yisrael went out to battle against
Benyamin; and the men of Yisrael put themselves in array
to fight against them at Givah.
21 And the children of Benyamin came forth out of
Givah, and cut down to the ground of the Yisraelites that
day twenty two thousand men.
22 And the people, the men of Yisrael encouraged
themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place
where they put themselves in array the first day.
23 And the children of Yisrael went up and wept before
vuvh until evening, and asked counsel of vuvh, saying,
Shall I go up again to battle against the children of
Benyamin my brother? And vuvh said, Go up against
him.
24 And the children of Yisrael came near to the children
of Benyamin the second day.
25 And Benyamin went forth against them out of Givah
the second day, and cut down to the ground of the
children of Yisrael again eighteen thousand men; all these
drew the sword.
26 Then all the children of Yisrael, and all the people,
went up, and came to the Bayit of Elohim, and wept, and
sat there before vuvh, and fasted that day until evening,
and offered burnt offerings and shalom offerings before
vuvh.
27 And the children of Yisrael inquired of vuvh, for the
Ark of the Testimony of Elohim was there in those days,
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28 And Pinchus, the son of El-Azar, the son of Aharon,
stood before it in those days, saying, Shall I yet again go
out to battle against the children of Benyamin my brother,
or shall I cease? And vuvh said, Go up; for tomorrow
morning I will deliver them into your hand.
29 And Yisrael set an ambush in wait around Givah.
30 And the children of Yisrael went up against the
children of Benyamin on the third day, and put
themselves in array against Givah, as at other times.
31 And the children of Benyamin went out against the
people, and were drawn away from the city; and they
began to smite the people, and kill, as at other times, in
the highways, one of which goes up to the Bayit of
Elohim, and the other to Givah in the field, about thirty
men of Yisrael.
32 And the children of Benyamin said, They are smitten
before us, as the first time. But the children of Yisrael
said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the
highways.
33 And all the men of Yisrael rose up out of their place,
and put themselves in array at Ba’al-Tamar: and the
ambushers of Yisrael came forth out of their places, even
out of the meadows of Givah.
34 And there came against Givah ten thousand chosen men
out of kol Yisrael, and the battle was fierce: but they knew
not that evil was near them.
35 And vuvh smote Benyamin before Yisrael: and the
children of Yisrael destroyed from the Benyamites that day
twenty five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the
sword.
36 So the children of Benyamin saw that they were smitten:
for the men of Yisrael gave ground to the Benyamites,
because they trusted the ambushers that they had set next to
Givah.
37 And the ambushers hurried, and rushed upon Givah; and
the ambushers in wait drew themselves along, and smote
the entire city with the edge of the sword.
38 Now there was an appointed ot between the men of
Yisrael and the ambushers in wait that they should make a
great flame with smoke rising up out of the city.
39 And when the men of Yisrael turned in the battle,
Benyamin began to smite and kill of the men of Yisrael
about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten
down before us, as in the first battle.
40 But when the flame began to rise up out of the city with
a pillar of smoke, the Benyamites looked behind them, and,
see, the flame of the city ascended up to the shamayim.
41 And when the men of Yisrael turned again, the men of
Benyamin were amazed: for they saw that evil had come
upon them.
42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of
Yisrael to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook
them; and those Benyamites who came out of the cities
were destroyed in the midst of the men of Yisrael.
43 They surrounded the Benyamites all around, and chased
them, and trampled them down with ease over against
Givah toward the east.
44 And there fell of Benyamin eighteen thousand men; all
these were men of valor.
45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the
Rock of Rimmon: and they cut down in the highways five
thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and
killed two thousand of them.