Judges 20:9
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New International Version (©2011)
But now this is what we'll do to Gibeah: We'll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Instead, this is what we will do to Gibeah; we will draw lots to decide who will attack it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go against it by lot.

International Standard Version (©2012)
This is what we'll do to Gibeah: we're going to assemble an army by lottery.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This is what we'll do to Gibeah. We'll decide by lot who should attack it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

American King James Version
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

American Standard Version
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But this we will do in common against Gabaa:

Darby Bible Translation
But now this is what we will do to Gib'e-ah: we will go up against it by lot,

English Revised Version
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot;

Webster's Bible Translation
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

World English Bible
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;

Young's Literal Translation
and now, this is the thing which we do to Gibeah -- against it by lot!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - We will go up by lot against it. The words we will go up are not in the Hebrew, but are supplied by the Septuagint, who very likely found in their Hebrew copy the word na'aleh, we will go up, which has since (perchance) fallen out of the Hebrew text from its resemblance to the following word 'aleha against it. The sense will then be, Not one of us will shrink from the dangers of the war; but we will cast lots who shall go up against Gibeah, and who shall be employed in collecting victuals for the army, 40,000 having to be told off for the latter service. And exactly in the same spirit (if indeed the answer was not actually given by lot) they inquired of the Lord who should go up first (in ver. 18), and, we may presume also, who should follow in the subsequent attacks, though this is omitted for brevity. Others, however, think the words against it by lot are purposely abrupt, and that the meaning is that Israel would deal with Gibeah as they had done with the Canaanites, viz., destroy their city, and divide its territory by lot among the other tribes, after the analogy of Joshua 18:8-10. But this interpretation is not borne out by what actually happened, nor is the phrase a likely one to have been used.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah,.... Where the fact was done; what follows was proposed by some, and unanimously agreed to by all:

we will go up by lot against it; cast lots who shall go up to it and demand satisfaction for the offence committed; and if denied, to act in an hostile manner against it.

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The Decree of the Assembly
…8And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house. 9But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; 10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel. …

Judges 20:8 All the men rose up together as one, saying, "None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house.
Judges 20:10 We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel."