Judges 20:18

Modern English Version

The Israelites arose, went up to Bethel, and asked God, “Who should go up first to wage war against the Benjamites?” The Lord said, “Judah first.”

Cross References

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Numbers 27:21

He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him about the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word will they go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the Israelites with him, even all the assembly.”

Numbers 27:5

Moses brought their case before the Lord.

Joshua 18:1

The whole congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

Joshua 9:14

So the men examined some of the food provisions, but they did not ask the Lord about it.

Judges 18:31

So they displayed Micah’s graven image that he had made, for the whole time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

Judges 19:18

He said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the Lord. No one has taken me into his home.

Judges 20:17

The men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, gathered four hundred thousand armed men who drew the sword; all of them were men of war.

Judges 20:19

The Israelites got up in the morning and camped against Gibeah.

Judges 20:23

Then the Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we advance and fight our brother-tribesmen the Benjamites again?” The Lord said, “Advance against them.”

Judges 20:7

Behold, you Israelites, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.”

1 Samuel 10:3

“Then you will go forward from there, and you will come to the plain of Tabor. And there you will meet three men going up to God to Bethel: one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.