TBESH · H9003
/ב · b · in/on/with
Prefix beth: in, among, with,
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/ב (b) means “in/on/with” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: b STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ב · b · in/on/with
Prefix beth: in, among, with,
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That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
Read word by wordWhen he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
Read word by word“Peace to you,” said the old man. “Let me supply everything you need. Only do not spend the night in the square.”
Read word by wordLook, 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.”
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordIn 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordThe leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
Read word by wordThen I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
Read word by wordNow this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.
Read word by wordWe will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
Read word by wordAnd the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?
Read word by wordHand 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.
Read word by wordOn that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
Read word by wordAmong all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordThe next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.
Read word by wordAnd the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
Read word by wordBut the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
Read word by wordThey 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.”
Read word by wordOn the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.
Read word by wordThat same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordAnd the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
Read word by wordand 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.”
Read word by wordOn the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordThe LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
Read word by wordthe 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.”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordThat day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
Read word by wordBut 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordNow the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
Read word by word“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
Read word by wordThe Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
Read word by wordWhat should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
Read word by wordSo they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordThen the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
Read word by wordAnd at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
Read word by wordThe people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
Read word by word“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
Read word by wordSo they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
Read word by wordand watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Read word by wordWhen their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
Read word by wordThe Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
Read word by wordAnd at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
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