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Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
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Zephaniah 3:6-7
I have cut off nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.I thought: You will certainly fear Me and accept correction. Then her dwelling place would not be cut off based on all that I had allocated to her. However, they became more corrupt in all their actions.
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Judges 20:17-48
The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, rallied 400,000 armed men, every one an experienced warrior.They set out, went to Bethel, and inquired of God. The Israelites asked,“ Who is to go first to fight for us against the Benjaminites?” And the Lord answered,“ Judah will be first.”In the morning, the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.The men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took their battle positions against Gibeah.The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and slaughtered 22,000 men of Israel on the field that day.But the Israelite army rallied and again took their battle positions in the same place where they positioned themselves on the first day.They went up, wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of Him:“ Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites?” And the Lord answered:“ Fight against them.”On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjaminites.That same day the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet them and slaughtered an additional 18,000 Israelites on the field; all were armed men.The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.Then the Israelites inquired of the Lord. In those days, the ark of the covenant of God was there,and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving before it. The Israelites asked:“ Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites or should we stop?” The Lord answered:“ Fight, because I will hand them over to you tomorrow.”So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.On the third day the Israelites fought against the Benjaminites and took their battle positions against Gibeah as before.Then the Benjaminites came out against the people and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about 30 men of Israel on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah through the open country.The Benjaminites said,“ We are defeating them as before.” But the Israelites said,“ Let’s flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”So all the men of Israel got up from their places and took their battle positions at Baal-tamar, while the Israelites in ambush charged out of their places west of Geba.Then 10,000 choice men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was about to strike them.The Lord defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 men of Benjamin; all were armed men.Then the Benjaminites realized they had been defeated. The men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin, because they were confident in the ambush they had set against Gibeah.The men in ambush had rushed quickly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.The men of Israel had a prearranged signal with the men in ambush: when they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,the men of Israel would return to the battle. When Benjamin had begun to strike them down, killing about 30 men of Israel, they said,“ They’re defeated before us, just as they were in the first battle.”But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, Benjamin looked behind them, and the whole city was going up in smoke.Then the men of Israel returned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had struck them.They retreated before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities slaughtered those between them.They surrounded the Benjaminites, pursued them, and easily overtook them near Gibeah toward the east.There were 18,000 men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.Then Benjamin turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel killed 5,000 men on the highways. They overtook them at Gidom and struck 2,000 more dead.All the Benjaminites who died that day were 25,000 armed men; all were warriors.But 600 men escaped into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and stayed there four months.The men of Israel turned back against the other Benjaminites and killed them with their swords— the entire city, the animals, and everything that remained. They also burned down all the cities that remained.
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Judges 20:13-14
Hand over the perverted men in Gibeah so we can put them to death and eradicate evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not obey their fellow Israelites.Instead, the Benjaminites gathered together from their cities to Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
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Judges 19:22-30
While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, perverted men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house,“ Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”The owner of the house went out and said to them,“ No, don’t do this evil, my brothers. After all, this man has come into my house. Don’t do this horrible thing.Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine now. Use them and do whatever you want to them. But don’t do this horrible thing to this man.”But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his concubine and took her outside to them. They raped her and abused her all night until morning. At daybreak they let her go.Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to leave on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, collapsed near the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.“ Get up,” he told her.“ Let’s go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.When he entered his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her into 12 pieces, limb by limb, and then sent her throughout the territory of Israel.Everyone who saw it said,“ Nothing like this has ever happened or has been seen since the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt to this day. Think it over, discuss it, and speak up!”
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Genesis 8:21
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself,“ I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
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Judges 20:5
Citizens of Gibeah ganged up on me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, but they raped my concubine, and she died.
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Matthew 23:31-32
You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!
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Genesis 6:5
When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,
