Judges 20:8
Everyone stood up and unitedly declared, “None of us are going home to our tents! None of us are going home to our houses!
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In Context
7So all of you Israelites have to decide here and now what you're going to do about it!”
9This is what we're going to do to Gibeah: we will attack it with our forces chosen by lot.
Cross References
Judges 20:11All the men of Israel were in agreement and gathered to attack the town.
Judges 21:5“Which of all the tribes of Israel didn't attend the assembly we held before the Lord?” they asked. For they had sworn a sacred oath that anyone who did not come before the Lord at Mizpah would without exception be executed.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you do, do it with all your strength, for when you go to the grave there's no more working or thinking, no more knowing or being wise.
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 →