Hakim-hakim 20:8-11

20:8 All Israel rose up in unison ¹  and said, “Not one of us will go home! ²  Not one of us will return ³  to his house! 20:9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates. ⁴  20:10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. ⁵  When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.” ⁶  20:11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies. ⁷ 

[20:8]  ¹ tn Heb “as one man.”

[20:8]  ² tn Heb “to his tent.”

[20:8]  ³ tn Or “turn aside.”

[20:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “against her by lot.” The verb “we will go up” (נַעֲלֶה, na’aleh) has probably been accidentally omitted before “against her” (עָלֶיהָ, ’aleha).

[20:9]  sn As the lot dictates. The Israelite soldiers intended to cast lots to determine which tribe would lead the battle charge (see v. 18).

[20:10]  ⁵ tn Or “people.”

[20:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”

[20:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”