Judges 20:14
New International Version
From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites.

New Living Translation
Instead, they came from their towns and gathered at Gibeah to fight the Israelites.

English Standard Version
Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

King James Bible
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

New King James Version
Instead, the children of Benjamin gathered together from their cities to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
Instead, the sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.

NASB 1995
The sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.

NASB 1977
And the sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.

Amplified Bible
Then the [tribe of the] sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the [other] sons of Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
Instead, the Benjaminites gathered together from their cities to Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Instead, the Benjaminites gathered together from their cities to Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

American Standard Version
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the sons of Benjamin assembled from their city to Gebah to go out and to fight with the sons of Israel

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the children of Benjamin were gathered from their cities to Gabaa, to go forth to fight with the children of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Men from towns all over Benjamin's territory went to Gibeah and got ready to fight Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered themselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the whole people of Israel.

English Revised Version
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So the men of Benjamin went from their towns and assembled at Gibeah to go to war with the men of Israel.

Good News Translation
From all the cities of Benjamin they came to Gibeah to fight the other people of Israel.

International Standard Version
so the descendants of Benjamin assembled from the cities of Gibeah to fight the Israelis in battle.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of their cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
and the sons of Benjamin are gathered out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle with the sons of Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

New American Bible
Instead, the Benjaminites assembled from their cities at Gibeah, to march out to battle with the Israelites.

NET Bible
The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.

New Revised Standard Version
The Benjaminites came together out of the towns to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the Israelites.

New Heart English Bible
The people of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the children of Benjamin assembled out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

World English Bible
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Benjamin are gathered out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle with the sons of Israel.

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Context
The Decree of the Assembly
13Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites. 14And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites. 15On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.…

Cross References
Judges 20:13
Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil." But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

Judges 20:15
On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.


Treasury of Scripture

But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Numbers 20:20
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

Numbers 21:23
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

2 Chronicles 13:13
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

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Judges 20
1. The Levite in a general assembly declared his wrong
8. The decree of the assembly
12. The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites
18. The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand
26. They destroy by a plan all the Benjamites, except six hundred.














Verse 14. - But the children of Benjamin. It should be And the children, etc. It is not dependent upon the preceding verse, but begins a new head of the narrative. From the cities, i.e. the different cities of the tribe of Benjamin, enumerated in Joshua 18:21-28, twenty-six in number.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And from
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

their cities
הֶעָרִ֖ים (he·‘ā·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5892: Excitement

[they]
בְנֵֽי־ (ḇə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

came together
וַיֵּאָסְפ֧וּ (way·yê·’ā·sə·p̄ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

at Gibeah
הַגִּבְעָ֑תָה (hag·giḇ·‘ā·ṯāh)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1390: Gibeah -- 'hill', three cities in Palestine

to go out
לָצֵ֥את (lā·ṣêṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

and fight
לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (lam·mil·ḥā·māh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

against
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

the Israelites.
בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son


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