Judges 20:8
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 unto his house.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
7Behold, ye are all here, children of Israel, give here your advice and council.'
9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
Cross References
Judges 20:11So 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 in the assembly unto the LORD?' For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah, saying: 'He shall surely be put to death.'
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand attaineth to do by thy strength, that do; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, 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 →