Gibeah

All 23 verses in Judges, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

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• Judges 19:12

  But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

• Judges 19:13

  He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

• Judges 19:14

  So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

• Judges 19:15

  They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.

• Judges 19:16

  That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.

• Judges 20:4

  So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

• Judges 20:5

  And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

• Judges 20:9

  Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.

• Judges 20:10

  We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

• Judges 20:13

  Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

• Judges 20:14

  And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

• Judges 20:15

  On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

• Judges 20:19

  The next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.

• Judges 20:20

  And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.

• Judges 20:21

  And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

• Judges 20:25

  That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

• Judges 20:29

  So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

• Judges 20:30

  On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.

• Judges 20:31

  The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

• Judges 20:34

  Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

• Judges 20:36

  Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

• Judges 20:37

  The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.

• Judges 20:43

  They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.