Judges 20:7 - Revised Standard Version Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, you Israelites, all of you, give here your advice and counsel. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel. Common English Bible All you Israelites, say what you think should be done here and now!” Catholic Public Domain Version You are all present here, O sons of Israel. Discern what you ought to do." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You are all here, O children of Israel: determine what you ought to do. |
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
So the men partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the Lord.
And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
And all the people arose as one man, saying, “We will not any of us go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.