Judges 20:29

Updated Bible Version

And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah round about.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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,

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 sons of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Yahweh. ²⁷ And the sons of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, ²⁸ and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand. ²⁹ And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah round about. ³⁰ And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. ³¹ And the sons of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. ³² And the sons of Benjamin said, They are being smitten down before us, as at the first. But the sons of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways. ³³ And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out from the clearing of Geba. ³⁴ And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was intense; but they didn't know that evil was close on them. ³⁵ And Yahweh smote Benjamin before Israel; and the sons of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these [were] swordsmen.

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.