H3478–יִשְׂרָאֵל–yis.ra.el

They said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (יִשְׂרָאֵֽל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.

לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?

יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (יִשְׂרָאֵֽל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (יִשְׂרָאֵֽל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.

מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (יִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [supplied: shall go up] first.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל (יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”