Darby Bible
Judges 20:7
7Behold, all ye, children of Israel, deliberate and give here [your] counsel.
Judges 20:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
- New International Version (NIV)Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look! All of you are children of Israel; give your advice and counsel here and now!”
Context of Judges 20:7
5And the citizens of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house because of me, by night; they thought to slay me, and my concubine have they humbled so that she died. 6Then I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and villany in Israel. Behold, all ye, children of Israel, deliberate and give here [your] counsel. 8And all the people rose up as one man, saying, We will not any one go to his tent, neither will we any one turn into his house. 9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we go] by lot against it;
Read all of Judges 20Judges 20:7 word by word
הִנֵּ֥ה כֻלְּכֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הָב֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם דָּבָ֥ר וְעֵצָ֖ה הֲלֹֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Judges 20:7
- Exodus 19:5And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples — for all the earth is mine —
- Deuteronomy 4:6And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
- Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
- Judges 19:30And it came to pass that every one that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day. Think it over, advise, and speak.
- Joshua 9:14And the men took of their victuals, but they did not inquire at the mouth of Jehovah.
- Proverbs 20:18Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.
- Proverbs 24:6For with good advice shalt thou make thy war; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
- James 1:5But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
Commentaries on Judges 20:7
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-48These two epilogues (Judges 17–18 and 19–21) show that inspired but unstructured leadership cannot last. As society moved toward chaos and civil war, the phrase, In those days there was no king in Israel appears four times. The phrase, everyone did what was right in his own eyes is added twice (Judges 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25). The era of inspired leadership declined and ended in disorder. Something important was missing.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-74-7. the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said--The injured husband gave a brief and unvarnished recital of the tragic outrage, from which it appears that force was used, which he could not resist. His testimony was doubtless corroborated by those of his servant and the old Ephraimite. There was no need of strong or highly colored description to work upon the feelings of the audience. The facts spoke for themselves and…Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Judges 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
Darby Bible — 1889 — Public Domain
Commentaries