New Revised Standard Version
There came against Gibeah ten thousand picked men out of all Israel, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was close upon them.

New American Bible
and advanced against Gibeah with ten thousand picked men from all Israel. The fighting was severe, but no one knew that a disaster was closing in.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side.

And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side.

ten thousand

Judges 20:29 And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa:

knew not

Joshua 8:14 And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.

Job 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 29:6 A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.

Ecclesiastes 8:11,12 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. . . .

Isaiah 47:11 Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Matthew 24:44 Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.