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Selected Verse: Judges 20:3 - Strong Concordance

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Jud 20:3 Strong Concordance (Now the children [01121] of Benjamin [01144] heard [08085] that the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were gone up [05927] to Mizpeh [04709].) Then said [0559] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], Tell [01696] us, how was [01961] this wickedness [07451]?
  King James (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh--Some suppose that Benjamin had been passed over, the crime having been perpetrated within the territory of that tribe [Jdg 19:16]; and that, as the concubine's corpse had been divided into twelve pieces [Jdg 19:29] --two had been sent to Manasseh, one respectively to the western and eastern divisions. It is more probable that Benjamin had received a formal summons like the other tribes, but chose to treat it with indifference, or haughty disdain.
 
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29 And when he was come [0935] into his house [01004], he took [03947] a knife [03979], and laid hold [02388] on his concubine [06370], and divided [05408] her, together with her bones [06106], into twelve [08147] [06240] pieces [05409], and sent [07971] her into all the coasts [01366] of Israel [03478].
16 And, behold, there came [0935] an old [02205] man [0376] from his work [04639] out of the field [07704] at even [06153], which was also [0376] of mount [02022] Ephraim [0669]; and he sojourned [01481] in Gibeah [01390]: but the men [0582] of the place [04725] were Benjamites [01145].