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When they got near Jebus the day was far gone; and the servant said to his master, Now let us go from our road into this town of the Jebusites and take our night's rest there.

עִֽיר־ 'ir- “[the] city of”

But his master said to him, We will not go out of our way into a strange town, whose people are not of the children of Israel; but we will go on to Gibeah.

עִ֣יר 'ir “a city”

And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take o

הָעִ֜יר (עִ֜יר) 'Ir “city”

So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

הֶעָרִ֖ים (עָרִ֖ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the o

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they made a pillar of smoke go up from the town,

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw all the town going up in smoke to heaven.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.

מֵעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “a city of”הֶעָרִ֥ים (עָרִ֥ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.

הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said, Be seated here. And they took their seats.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

מֵֽעִירוֹ֙ (עִיר) 'i.R “city”

And when he came, Eli was seated by the wayside watching: and in his heart was fear for the ark of God. And when the man came into the town and gave the news, there was a great outcry.

בָּעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.

בָּעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”