Judges 20:7
You are all present here, O sons of Israel. Discern what you ought to do.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5If, therefore, you will hear my voice, and you will keep my covenant, you will be to me a particular possession out of all people. For all the earth is mine.
Deuteronomy 14:1“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.
Judges 19:30And when each one had seen this, they were crying out together, “Never has such a thing been done in Israel, from the day that our fathers ascended from Egypt, even to the present time. Let a sentence be brought and let us decide in common what ought to be done.”
Proverbs 24:6For war is undertaken in an orderly manner, and safety shall be where there are many counsels.
1 Corinthians 5:6It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?
James 1:5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
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 →