H9002–/וְ–v

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.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶ֖רֶץ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וּפִֽילַגְשִׁ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּנְבָלָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְעֵצָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [ergänzt: we will go up] against it by lot;

וְעַתָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּמֵאָ֤ה (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶ֣לֶף (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְעַתָּ֡ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּנְמִיתֵ֔ם (וּ) u. “so”וּנְבַעֲרָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

וְשִׁשָּׁ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְאִ֨ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁלָמִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְשָׁ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.

וּ֠פִינְחָס (וּ֠) U. “and”

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.

וְאַחַ֤ת (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּבְנֵ֧י (וּ) u. “and”

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.

וְכֹ֣ל׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֹרֵ֧ב (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְהַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וַחֲמִשָּׁ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”וּמֵאָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

The liers-in-wait hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

וְהָאֹרֵ֣ב (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וְהַמּוֹעֵ֗ד (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

וּבִנְיָמִ֡ן (וּ) u. “and”

But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.

וְהַמַּשְׂאֵ֗ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִנֵּ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”