Judges 20:8

Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:

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In The King James Version

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 into his house.

In Context

7Here you all are, you children of Israel; give now your suggestions about what is to be done.

9But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;

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Cross References

Judges 20:11So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.

Judges 21:5And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Matthew Henry on Judges 20:2-12

The Combination Against Gibeah. ( b. c. 1410.) 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh. 2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of… Read the whole commentary →

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