07:020:018 And the children of Israel arose, and went
up to the house of
God,
and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall
go
up
first to the battle against the children of Benjamin?
And
the
lord said, Judah shall go up first.
07:020:019 And the children of Israel rose up in the
morning, and
encamped
against Gibeah.
07:020:020 And the men of Israel went out to battle
against Benjamin; and
the
men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against
them
at Gibeah.
07:020:021 And the children of Benjamin came forth
out of Gibeah, and
destroyed
down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty
and
two thousand men.
07:020:022 And the people the men of Israel encouraged
themselves, and
set
their battle again in array in the place where they
put
themselves
in array the first day.
07:020:023 (And the children of Israel went up and
wept before the lord
until
even, and asked counsel of the lord, saying, Shall
I go
up
again to battle against the children of Benjamin my
brother?
And the lord said, Go up against him.)
07:020:024 And the children of Israel came near against
the children of
Benjamin
the second day.
07:020:025 And Benjamin 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.
07:020:026 Then all the children of Israel, and all
the people, went up,
and
came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there
before
the
lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered
burnt
offerings
and peace offerings before the lord.
07:020:027 And the children of Israel enquired of
the lord, (for the ark
of
the covenant of God was there in those days,
07:020:028 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son
of Aaron, stood
before
it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out
to
battle
against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall
I
cease?
And the lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will
deliver
them
into thine hand.
07:020:029 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
07:020:030 And the children of Israel went up against
the children of
Benjamin
on the third day, and put themselves in array against
Gibeah,
as at other times.
07:020:031 And the children of Benjamin went out against
the people, and
were
drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of
the
people,
and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which
one
goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah
in
the
field, about thirty men of Israel.


