Judges 20:8
And all the people rose up as one man, saying, We will not any one go to his tent, neither will we any one turn into his house.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Behold, all ye, children of Israel, deliberate and give here [your] counsel.
9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we go] by lot against it;
Cross References
Judges 20:11And all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Judges 21:5And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to Jehovah? For they had [made] a great oath concerning him that came not up to Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall certainly be put to death.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
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 →