Judges 20:29

Douay-Rheims Bible

And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Hebrew Names Version
Yisra'el set liers-in-wait against Gevah round about.

King James Version
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

Lexham English Bible
So Israel stationed an ambush all around Gibeah.

English Standard Version
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

New Century Version
Then the Israelites set up ambushes all around Gibeah.

New English Translation
So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Amplified Bible
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

New American Standard Bible
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Israel set men to lie in waite round about Gibeah.

Legacy Standard Bible
En Israel het rondom teen G�bea hinderlae opgestel.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites surrounded Gibeah, but stayed where they could not be seen.

Complete Jewish Bible
Isra'el hid some men around Giv‘ah,

Darby Translation
And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the army of Israel hid some men all around the city of Gibeah.

George Lamsa Translation
So Israel set ambushes round about Gibeah.

Good News Translation
So the Israelites put some soldiers in hiding around Gibeah.

Literal Translation
And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah all around.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel set a preuy watch agaynst Gibea rounde aboute,

American Standard Version
And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

Bible in Basic English
So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Israel set lyers awayte round about Gibea.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

King James Version (1611)
And Israel set lyers in waite round about Gibeah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel set an ambush against Gabaa round about it.

English Revised Version
And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah round about.

Berean Standard Bible
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel settiden buyschementis bi the cumpas of the citee of Gabaa;

Young's Literal Translation
And Israel setteth liers in wait against Gibeah, round about,

Update Bible Version
And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah round about.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Israel set liers in wait around Gibeah.

World English Bible
Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

New King James Version
Then Israel set men in ambush all around Gibeah.

New Living Translation
So the Israelites set an ambush all around Gibeah.

New Life Bible
So Israel sent men to hide around Gibeah.

New Revised Standard
So Israel stationed men in ambush around Gibeah.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.

Revised Standard Version
So Israel set men in ambush round about Gib'e-ah.

THE MESSAGE
This time Israel placed men in ambush all around Gibeah. On the third day when Israel set out, they took up the same positions before the Benjaminites as before. When the Benjaminites came out to meet the army, they moved out from the city. Benjaminites began to cut down some of the troops just as they had before. About thirty men fell in the field and on the roads to Bethel and Gibeah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God, and sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings, ²⁷ And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark of the covenant of the Lord was there, ²⁸ And Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was over the house. So they consulted the Lord, and said: Shall we go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin, our brethren, or shall we cease? And the Lord said to them: Go up, for to morrow I will deliver them into your hands. ²⁹ And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa: ³⁰ And they drew up their army against Benjamin the third time, as they had done the first and second. ³¹ And the children of Benjamin boldly issued out of the city, and seeing their enemies flee, pursued them a long way, so as to wound and kill some of them, as they had done the first and second day, whilst they fled by two highways, whereof one goeth up to Bethel and the other to Gabaa, and they slew about thirty men: ³² For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city, and by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid. ³³ Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places where they were, set their army in battle array, in the place which is called Baalthamar. The ambushes also, which were about the city, began by little and little to come forth, ³⁴ And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side. ³⁵ And the Lord defeated them before the children of Israel, and they slew of them in that day five and twenty thousand, and one hundred, all fighting men, and that drew the sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Israel: Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only by the use of proper means. Hence they used all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill.

liers: Judges 20:34, Joshua 8:4, 2 Samuel 5:23

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:2 - lay thee 1 Kings 22:5 - Inquire Nehemiah 4:11 - They shall not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. For though they were assured of success and victory, yet they thought proper to make use of means: and though their numbers were very great, they had recourse to art and stratagem, and set an ambush in divers places, much in like manner as Israel did for the men of Ai; the two cases being pretty much similar; this ambush was set in the night, as Josephus says s,

s Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2.) sect. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stratagem described is exactly that by which Joshua took Ai (marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 20:29. Israel set liers in wait — Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only in the use of the proper means. They used all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill.