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Judges 20:34

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And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was] near them.

And there came {H935} against {H5048} Gibeah {H1390} ten {H6235} thousand {H505} chosen {H977} men {H376} out of all Israel {H3478}, and the battle {H4421} was sore {H3513}: but they knew {H3045} not that evil {H7451} was near {H5060} them.

Ten thousand men chosen out of all Isra'el came over to attack Giv'ah, and the combat was intense. But the army of Binyamin didn't know that they were about to be defeated.

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.

And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.

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Cross-References

  • Joshua 8:14 (4 votes)

    And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it], that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the city.

  • Job 21:13 (3 votes)

    They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • Isaiah 47:11 (3 votes)

    Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12 (2 votes)

    For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (2 votes)

    For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

  • Luke 21:34 (2 votes)

    And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:11 (2 votes)

    Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.