Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 24:5
The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.
Isaiah 31:6
God said, "People of Israel, you have sinned against me and opposed me. But now, come back to me!
Gibeah
Hosea 10:9
The LORD says, "The people of Israel have not stopped sinning against me since the time of their sin at Gibeah. So at Gibeah war will catch up with them.
Judges 19:22-30
22
They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, "Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!"
23
But the old man went outside and said to them, "No, my friends! Please! Don't do such an evil, immoral thing! This man is my guest.
24
Look! Here is his concubine and my own virgin daughter. I'll bring them out now, and you can have them. Do whatever you want to with them. But don't do such an awful thing to this man!"
25
But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and put her outside with them. They raped her and abused her all night long and didn't stop until morning.
26
At dawn the woman came and fell down at the door of the old man's house, where her husband was. She was still there when daylight came.
27
Her husband got up that morning, and when he opened the door to go on his way, he found his concubine lying in front of the house with her hands reaching for the door.
28
He said, "Get up. Let's go." But there was no answer. So he put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.
29
When he arrived, he went in the house and got a knife. He took his concubine's body, cut it into twelve pieces, and sent one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
30
Everyone who saw it said, "We have never heard of such a thing! Nothing like this has ever happened since the Israelites left Egypt! We have to do something about this! What will it be?"
Judges 20:1-21
1
All the people of Israel from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, as well as from the land of Gilead in the east, answered the call. They gathered in one body in the LORD's presence at Mizpah.
2
The leaders of all the tribes of Israel were present at this gathering of God's people, and there were 400,000 foot soldiers.
3
Meanwhile the people of Benjamin heard that all the other Israelites had gathered at Mizpah. The Israelites asked, "Tell us, how was this crime committed?"
4
The Levite whose concubine had been murdered answered, "My concubine and I went to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.
5
The men of Gibeah came to get me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me; instead they raped my concubine, and she died.
6
I took her body, cut it in pieces, and sent one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel. These people have committed an evil and immoral act among us.
7
All of you here are Israelites. What are we going to do about this?"
8
All the people stood up together and said, "None of us, whether he lives in a tent or in a house, will go home.
9
This is what we will do: we will draw lots and choose some men to attack Gibeah.
10
One tenth of the men in Israel will provide food for the army, and the others will go and punish Gibeah for this immoral act that they have committed in Israel."
11
So all the men in Israel assembled with one purpose---to attack the town.
12
The Israelite tribes sent messengers all through the territory of the tribe of Benjamin to say, "What is this crime that you have committed?
13
Now hand over those perverts in Gibeah, so that we can kill them and remove this evil from Israel." But the people of Benjamin paid no attention to the other Israelites.
14
From all the cities of Benjamin they came to Gibeah to fight the other people of Israel.
15
They called out twenty-six thousand soldiers from their cities that day. Besides these, the citizens of Gibeah gathered seven hundred specially chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a strand of hair and never miss.
17
Not counting the tribe of Benjamin, the Israelites gathered 400,000 trained soldiers.
18
The Israelites went to the place of worship at Bethel, and there they asked God, "Which tribe should attack the Benjaminites first?" The LORD answered, "The tribe of Judah."
19
So the Israelites started out the next morning and camped near the city of Gibeah.
20
They went to attack the army of Benjamin, and placed the soldiers in position facing the city.
21
The army of Benjamin came out of the city, and before the day was over they had killed twenty-two thousand Israelite soldiers.
therefore
Hosea 8:13
They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of the sacrifices. But I, the LORD, am not pleased with them, and now I will remember their sin and punish them for it; I will send them back to Egypt!