Judges 20:29

Hebrew Names Version

Yisra'el set liers-in-wait against Gevah round about.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

King James Version
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

Lexham English Bible
So Israel stationed an ambush all around Gibeah.

English Standard Version
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

New Century Version
Then the Israelites set up ambushes all around Gibeah.

New English Translation
So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Amplified Bible
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

New American Standard Bible
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Israel set men to lie in waite round about Gibeah.

Legacy Standard Bible
En Israel het rondom teen Gíbea hinderlae opgestel.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites surrounded Gibeah, but stayed where they could not be seen.

Complete Jewish Bible
Isra'el hid some men around Giv‘ah,

Darby Translation
And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the army of Israel hid some men all around the city of Gibeah.

George Lamsa Translation
So Israel set ambushes round about Gibeah.

Good News Translation
So the Israelites put some soldiers in hiding around Gibeah.

Literal Translation
And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah all around.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel set a preuy watch agaynst Gibea rounde aboute,

American Standard Version
And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

Bible in Basic English
So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Israel set lyers awayte round about Gibea.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

King James Version (1611)
And Israel set lyers in waite round about Gibeah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel set an ambush against Gabaa round about it.

English Revised Version
And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah round about.

Berean Standard Bible
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel settiden buyschementis bi the cumpas of the citee of Gabaa;

Young's Literal Translation
And Israel setteth liers in wait against Gibeah, round about,

Update Bible Version
And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah round about.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Israel set liers in wait around Gibeah.

World English Bible
Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

New King James Version
Then Israel set men in ambush all around Gibeah.

New Living Translation
So the Israelites set an ambush all around Gibeah.

New Life Bible
So Israel sent men to hide around Gibeah.

New Revised Standard
So Israel stationed men in ambush around Gibeah.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa:

Revised Standard Version
So Israel set men in ambush round about Gib'e-ah.

THE MESSAGE
This time Israel placed men in ambush all around Gibeah. On the third day when Israel set out, they took up the same positions before the Benjaminites as before. When the Benjaminites came out to meet the army, they moved out from the city. Benjaminites began to cut down some of the troops just as they had before. About thirty men fell in the field and on the roads to Bethel and Gibeah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Then all the children of Yisra'el, and all the people, went up, and came to Beit-El, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the LORD. ²⁷ The children of Yisra'el asked of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, ²⁸ and Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Binyamin my brother, or shall I cease? the LORD said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand. <sup>29</sup> Yisra'el set liers-in-wait against Gevah round about. <sup>30</sup> The children of Yisra'el went up against the children of Binyamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gevah, as at other times. <sup>31</sup> The children of Binyamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Beit-El, and the other to Gevah, in the field, about thirty men of Yisra'el. <sup>32</sup> The children of Binyamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Yisra'el said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways. <sup>33</sup> All the men of Yisra'el rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Ba`al-Tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Yisra'el broke forth out of their place, even out of Ma`areh-Geva. ³⁴ There came over against Gevah ten thousand chosen men out of all Yisra'el, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them. ³⁵ The LORD struck Binyamin before Yisra'el; and the children of Yisra'el destroyed of Binyamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Israel: Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only by the use of proper means. Hence they used all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill.

liers: Judges 20:34, Joshua 8:4, 2 Samuel 5:23

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:2 - lay thee 1 Kings 22:5 - Inquire Nehemiah 4:11 - They shall not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. For though they were assured of success and victory, yet they thought proper to make use of means: and though their numbers were very great, they had recourse to art and stratagem, and set an ambush in divers places, much in like manner as Israel did for the men of Ai; the two cases being pretty much similar; this ambush was set in the night, as Josephus says s,

s Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2.) sect. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stratagem described is exactly that by which Joshua took Ai (marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 20:29. Israel set liers in wait — Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only in the use of the proper means. They used all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill.