Judges 20:7

Behold, all ye are children of Israel; and consider and take counsel here among yourselves.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

In Context

6And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent the parts into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have wrought lewdness and abomination in Israel.

8And all the people rose up as one man, saying, No one of us shall return to his tent, and no one of us shall return to his house.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5And now if ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.

Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Judges 19:30And it was so, that everyone who saw it said, Such a day as this has not happened nor has been seen from the day of the going up of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt until this day: take ye counsel concerning it, and speak.

Proverbs 24:6War is carried on with generalship, 1 And aid is supplied to the heart of a counselor. 1

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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