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Malachi Chapter 20

1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation

2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of

3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel

5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round

6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her

7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and

8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of

9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we

11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit

12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of

13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which

14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of

15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of

16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men

17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four

18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of

19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped

20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and

21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and

22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set

23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD

25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second

26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up,

27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of

29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of

31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and

32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before

33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put

34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all

35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of

36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the

37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the

38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and

39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began

40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a

41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin

42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto

43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them,

44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were

45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of

46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five

47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the

48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of