Judges 20:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Israelites proceeded to go up to Bethel, where they inquired of God, “Which of us shall go up first to battle against the Benjaminites?” And the Lord answered, “Judah shall go up first.”

Cross References

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather 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

But he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the decision of the Urim before the Lord; at his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the Israelites with him, the whole congregation.”

Numbers 27:5

Moses brought their case before the Lord.

Joshua 18:1

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

Joshua 9:14

So the leaders partook of their provisions and did not ask direction from the Lord.

Judges 18:31

So they maintained as their own Micah’s idol that he had made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.

Judges 19:18

He answered him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to my home. Nobody has offered to take me in.

Judges 20:17

And the Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand armed men, all of them warriors.

Judges 20:19

Then the Israelites got up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.

Judges 20:23

The Israelites strengthened themselves and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.

Judges 20:7

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

1 Samuel 10:3

Then you shall go on from there further and come to the oak of Tabor; three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there: one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.