Hosea 10:9

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Hosea 10:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.

8 The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

9 Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

10 I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.

11 Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.

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Hosea 9:9

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Judges 19:22

While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”

Judges 19:23

The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.

Judges 19:24

Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”

Judges 19:25

But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

Judges 19:26

Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

Judges 19:27

In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

Judges 19:28

“Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

Judges 19:29

When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

Judges 19:30

And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”

Judges 20:5

And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

Judges 20:13

Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

Judges 20:14

And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

Judges 20:17

The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.

Judges 20:18

The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.

Judges 20:19

The next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.

Judges 20:20

And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.

Judges 20:21

And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

Judges 20:22

But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.

Judges 20:23

They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

Judges 20:24

On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.

Judges 20:25

That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

Judges 20:26

Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

Judges 20:27

And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

Judges 20:28

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

Judges 20:29

So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:30

On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.

Judges 20:31

The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

Judges 20:32

“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”

Judges 20:33

So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:34

Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

Judges 20:35

The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

Judges 20:37

The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.

Judges 20:38

The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

Judges 20:39

the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”

Judges 20:40

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.

Judges 20:42

So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.

Judges 20:43

They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

Judges 20:44

And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.

Judges 20:45

Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.

Judges 20:46

That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.

Judges 20:47

But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

Judges 20:48

And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.

Genesis 6:5

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Zephaniah 3:6

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3:7

I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.