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Judges 20:12

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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?

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KJV King James Version

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

WEB World English Bible

The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

ASV American Standard Version

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

And the tribes of Israel send men among all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, ‘What is this evil which hath been among you?

Surrounding context — Judges 20

9 But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it;

10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, 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 Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?

13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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