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Christian Standard Bible ®

Judges 20:7

Look, all of you are Israelites. Give your judgment and verdict here and now.”

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Mizpah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gibeah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, you children of Yisra'el, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
King James Version
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
Lexham English Bible
Look, all you Israelites! Make your decision and advice here."
English Standard Version
Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."
New Century Version
Now, all you Israelites, speak up. What is your decision?"
New English Translation
All you Israelites, make a decision here!"
Amplified Bible
"Now then, all you sons of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here [regarding what should be done]."
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, all you sons of Israel, give your response and advice here."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Behold, ye are al children of Israel: giue your aduise, and counsell herein.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hier is julle, kinders van Israel, nou almal: gee julle hier woord en raad!
Contemporary English Version
You are the people of Israel, and you must decide today what to do about the men of Gibeah.
Complete Jewish Bible
Look, you are all people of Isra'el. So discuss what to do, and give your advice here and now."
Darby Translation
Behold, all ye, children of Israel, deliberate and give here [your] counsel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now, all you men of Israel, speak up. Give your decision about what we should do."
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, you are all here, O children of Israel, give an answer and counsel concerning this crime.
Good News Translation
All of you here are Israelites. What are we going to do about this?"
Literal Translation
Behold, you are the sons of Israel. Give here your advice and counsel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, here are ye children of Israel: aduyse you well, and take this matter in hande.
American Standard Version
Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
Bible in Basic English
Here you all are, you children of Israel; give now your suggestions about what is to be done.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde ye are all children of Israel, geue your aduice and counsel herein.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, ye are all here, children of Israel, give here your advice and council.'
King James Version (1611)
Behold, ye are all children of Israel, giue here your aduise and counsell.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, all ye are children of Israel; and consider and take counsel here among yourselves.
English Revised Version
Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, all you Israelites, give your advice and verdict here and now."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle ye sones of Israel ben present; deme ye, what ye owen do.
Young's Literal Translation
lo, ye [are] all sons of Israel; give for you a word and counsel here.'
Update Bible Version
Look, you sons of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
World English Bible
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
New King James Version
Look! All of you are children of Israel; give your advice and counsel here and now!"
New Living Translation
Now then, all of you—the entire community of Israel—must decide here and now what should be done about this!"
New Life Bible
All you people of Israel, say what should be done."
New Revised Standard
So now, you Israelites, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! ye all, are sons of Israel, - give your word and counsel, here.
Douay-Rheims Bible
You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought to do.
Revised Standard Version
Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, all you sons of Israel, give your advice and counsel here."

Contextual Overview

1All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the Lord at Mizpah. 2The leaders of all the people and of all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: four hundred thousand armed foot soldiers. 3The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. 4The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night. 5Citizens of Gibeah came to attack me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, but they raped my concubine, and she died. 6Then I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout Israel’s territory, because they have committed a wicked outrage in Israel. 7Look, all of you are Israelites. Give your judgment and verdict here and now.”8Then all the people stood united and said, “None of us will go to his tent or return to his house. 9Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will attack it. By lot 10we will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred out of every thousand, and one thousand out of every ten thousand to get provisions for the troops when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for all the outrage they committed in Israel.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye are all: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 4:6, Deuteronomy 14:1, Deuteronomy 14:2, 1 Corinthians 5:1, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 5:10-12

give here: Judges 19:30, Joshua 9:14, Proverbs 20:18, Proverbs 24:6, James 1:5

Reciprocal: Judges 19:29 - divided her Judges 20:18 - asked Job 34:4 - choose

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
Genesis 12:15
Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s household.
Genesis 12:17
But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
Genesis 20:2
Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would you destroy a nation even though it is innocent?
Genesis 20:5
Didn’t he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. I have also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I have not let you touch her.
Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How did I sin against you that you have brought such enormous guilt on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, ye are all children of Israel,.... The descendants of one man that feared the Lord; were of one nation, and of one religion, men professing godliness, and therefore ought to bear testimony against sin and wickedness of every sort, and especially such crying abominations as these:

give your advice and counsel: in this place, being assembled together on this occasion; consult what is best to be done, and let every man speak his mind freely what step he thinks should be taken for the glory of God, and honour of religion, and to bring such persons to justice who had committed so foul a fact.


 
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