Judges 20:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

(Now the Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites said, “Tell us, how did this criminal act come about?”

Cross References

Proverbs 22:3

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Matthew 5:25

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.

Judges 20:12

The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What crime is this that has been committed among you?

Judges 20:2

The chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers bearing arms.

Judges 20:4

The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.