1Then all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan [Judge] even to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], with the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], unto the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Mitzpah [Watchtower]. 2And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. 3(Now the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] heard that the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were gone up to Mitzpah [Watchtower].) Then said the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Tell [us], how was this wickedness [committed]? 4And the Levi (Levite) [Joined to], the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Giv’ah [Hill] that [belongs] to Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], I and my concubine, to lodge. 5And the men of Giv’ah [Hill] rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they raped, that she is dead. 6And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for they have committed shockingly obscene and degrading crime in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 7Behold, you^2f [are] all people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; give here your advice and counsel.

8And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his house. 9But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to Giv’ah [Hill]; [we will go up] by lot against it; 10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Giv’ah [Hill] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], according to all the folly that they have wrought in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 11So all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

12And the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] sent men through all the tribe of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you? 13Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], which [are] in Giv’ah [Hill], that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. But the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: 14But the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Giv’ah [Hill], to go out to battle against the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 15And the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Giv’ah [Hill], which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. 16Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.

17And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], beside Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.

18And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] arose, and went up to the house of God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and asked counsel of God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]? And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [shall go up] first.

19And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] rose up in the morning, and encamped against Giv’ah [Hill]. 20And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went out to battle against Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]; and the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] put themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) to fight against them at Giv’ah [Hill]. 21And the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] came forth out of Giv’ah [Hill], and destroyed down to the ground of the Yisra’eli’s that day twenty and two thousand men. 22And the people the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array (to put on; to clothe) in the place where they put themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) the first day. 23(And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went up and wept before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) until even, and asked counsel of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] my brother? And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, Go up against him.)

24And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came near against the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] the second day. 25And Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] went forth against them out of Giv’ah [Hill] the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. 26Then all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and wept, and sat there before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). 27And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] enquired of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), (for the ark of the covenant of God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] there in those days, 28And Pinchas [mouth of brass], the son of El’azar [God has helped], the son of Aharon [Bright, Very High], stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver them into youⁱ hand.

29And Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] set liers in wait round about Giv’ah [Hill]. 30And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went up against the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] on the third day, and put themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) against Giv’ah [Hill], as at other times. 31And the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and the other to Giv’ah [Hill] in the field, about thirty men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 32And the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways. 33And all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) at Ba’al-Tamar [palm-tree] (lord of the Palms): and the liers in wait of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came forth out of their places, [even] out of the meadows of Giv’ah [Hill]. 34And there came against Giv’ah [Hill] ten thousand chosen men out of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was] near them. 35And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] before Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] destroyed of the Binyamini that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

36So the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] saw that they were smitten: for the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gave place to the Binyamini, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Giv’ah [Hill]. 37And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Giv’ah [Hill]; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. 38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. 39And when the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] retired in the battle, Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] began to strike [and] kill of the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle. 40But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Binyamini looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. 41And when the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] turned again, the men of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them. 42Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. 43[Thus] they enclosed the Binyamini round about, [and] chased them, [and] trampled them down with ease over against Giv’ah [Hill] toward the sunrising. 44And there fell of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valour. 45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon [Pomegranate]: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gid’om [a cutting down], and killed two thousand men of them. 46So that all which fell that day of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour. 47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon [Pomegranate], and abode in the rock Rimmon [Pomegranate] four months. 48And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] turned again upon the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and struck them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.