TBESH · H9009
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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/ה (ha) means “[the]” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ha STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
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Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
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 wordSo all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
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 wordAnd from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the 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 next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.
Read word by wordAnd the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at 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 wordSo Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
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 wordThen 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.
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 wordThen 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.
Read word by wordThe men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
Read word by wordThe men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
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 wordBut 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.
Read word by wordThen the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
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 wordThey surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
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 wordSo the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
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 next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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 wordAnd the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
Read word by wordSo they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
Read word by wordFor when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Read word by wordSo the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
Read word by wordThis is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
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.
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