20:8 All Israel rose up in unison 1 and said, “Not one of us will go home! 2 Not one of us will return 3 to his house! 20:9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates. 4 20:10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. 5 When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.” 6 20:11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies. 7
1 tn Heb “as one man.”
2 tn Heb “to his tent.”
3 tn Or “turn aside.”
4 tn Heb “against her by lot.” The verb “we will go up” (נַעֲלֶה, na’aleh) has probably been accidentally omitted before “against her” (עָלֶיהָ, ’aleha).
5 tn Or “people.”
6 tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”
7 tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”