Judges 20:29

20:29 So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Judges 20:19

20:19 The Israelites got up the next morning and moved ¹  against Gibeah.

Judges 19:14

19:14 So they traveled on, ²  and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ³ 

Judges 20:43

20:43 They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, ⁴  and annihilated ⁵  them all the way to a spot east of Geba. ⁶ 

Judges 20:5

20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. ⁷  They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

Judges 20:20-21

20:20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they ⁸  arranged their battle lines against Gibeah. 20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ⁹ 

Judges 20:30

20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ¹⁰  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

Judges 20:36-37

20:36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.

The Israelites retreated before ¹¹  Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah. 20:37 The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash ¹²  to Gibeah. They ¹³  attacked ¹⁴  and put the sword to the entire city.

Judges 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ¹⁵ 

Judges 20:25

20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. ¹⁶ 

[20:19]  ¹ tn Heb “encamped.”

[19:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”

[19:14]  ² tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

[20:43]  ¹ tc The translation assumes the reading מִנּוֹחָה (minnokhah, “from Nohah”; cf. 1 Chr 8:2) rather than the MT’s מְנוּחָה (mÿnukhah, “resting place”).

[20:43]  ² tn Heb “tread down, walk on.”

[20:43]  ³ tn Heb “unto the opposite of Gibeah toward the east.” Gibeah cannot be correct here, since the Benjaminites retreated from there toward the desert and Rimmon (see v. 45). A slight emendation yields the reading “Geba.”

[20:5]  ¹ tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”

[20:20]  ¹ tn Heb “the men of Israel.” The noun phrase has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:21]  ¹ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

[20:30]  ¹ tn Heb “the third day.”

[20:36]  ¹ tn Heb “gave place to.”

[20:37]  ¹ tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”

[20:37]  ² tn Heb “the men hiding in ambush.”

[20:37]  ³ tn Or “deployed.” The verb normally means “to lead” or “to draw.”

[20:15]  ¹ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

[20:25]  ¹ tn Heb “And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day, and they struck down among the sons of Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all of these were wielding the sword.”