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

לָצֵ֥את (לָ) la. “to”לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (לַ) la. “for <the>”

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.

לְ֠בַד (לְ֠) Le. “<to>”

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

לְבַד֙ (לְ) le. “<to>”

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 [ergänzt: shall go up] first.

לָּ֣נוּ (לָּ֣) La. “for <the>”לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (לַ) la. “to the”

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

לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (לַ) la. “to the”

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.

לַעֲרֹ֣ךְ (לַ) la. “to”

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.

לִפְנֵֽי־ (לִ) li “<to>”לֵאמֹ֔ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לָגֶ֙שֶׁת֙ (לָ) la. “to”לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (לַ) la. “for <the>”

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.

לִקְרָאתָ֥ם׀ (לִ) li “to”

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.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לִפְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “<to>”

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.

לְפָנָ֗יו (לְ) le. “<to>”לֵאמֹר֒ (לֵ) le. “<to>”לָצֵ֧את (לָ) la. “to”לַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה (לַ) la. “for <the>”

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.

לִקְרַ֣את (לִ) li “to”לְהַכּוֹת֩ (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לְפָנֵ֖ינוּ (לְ) le. “<to>”

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.

לַגִּבְעָ֜ה (לַ) la. “to <the>”

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.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”

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.

לְבִנְיָמִ֔ן (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לְפִי־ (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לְאִ֥ישׁ (לְ) le. “to”לְהַעֲלוֹתָ֛ם (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לְהַכּ֨וֹת (לְ) le. “to”לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ (לְ) le. “<to>”

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.

לַעֲל֥וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

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.

לִפְנֵ֨י (לִ) li “<to>”

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.

לְפִי־ (לְ) le. “to”

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

לֵאמֹ֑ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”לְבִנְיָמִ֖ן (לְ) le. “to”לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ (לְ) le. “to”

The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.

לִפְנֵ֖י (לִ) li “<to>”

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

לָמָ֗ה (לָ) la. “<to>”לְהִפָּקֵ֥ד (לְ) le. “to”

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.

לַ֠אֲשֶׁר (לַ֠) La. “to”לֵאמֹ֖ר (לֵ) le. “<to>”