Judges 20:7
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
Deuteronomy 14:1You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Judges 19:30It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
Proverbs 24:6for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
James 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will 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 →