Judges 20:10

Easy To Read Version

We will choose ten men from every 100 from all the family groups of Israel. And we will choose 100 men from every 1,000. We will choose 1,000 men from every 10,000. Those men we have chosen will get supplies for the army. Then the army will go to the city of Gibeah in the area of Benjamin. The army will punish those people for the terrible thing they did among the people of Israel.”

Cross References

Leviticus 18:24

“Don’t make yourself unclean [331] with any of those wrong things! I am throwing nations out of their countries and giving their land to you! Why? Because those people did those terrible sins!

Deuteronomy 22:21

then the town leaders must bring the girl to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of the town must kill her with stones. Why? Because she has done a shameful thing in Israel. She has acted like a prostitute [138] in her father’s house. You must remove that evil from your people.

Joshua 7:15

The man who is keeping those things that we should have destroyed will be caught. Then that man will be destroyed by fire. And everything that he owns will be destroyed with him. That man broke the Agreement with the Lord. He has done a very bad thing to the people of Israel!’”

Judges 20:11

So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city of Gibeah. They were all agreed to what they were doing.

Judges 20:6

So I took my woman servant and cut her into pieces. Then I sent one piece to each of the family groups of Israel. I sent the 12 pieces to the lands we have received. I did that because the people of Benjamin have done this terrible thing in Israel.

Judges 20:9

Now this is what we will do to the city of Gibeah: We will throw lots [169] to let God show us what to do to those people.

Judges 21:1

At Mizpah, the men of Israel made a promise. This was their promise: “Not one of us will let his daughter marry a man from the family group of Benjamin.”