H3478–יִשְׂרָאֵל–yis.ra.el

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Yahweh.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

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

The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

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

There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

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

The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

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

The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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

The children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

They said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah? Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל) Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El “Israel”

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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