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Hosea 9:9
They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.
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Zephaniah 3:6-7
“ I have destroyed nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty.Of Jerusalem I thought,‘ Surely you will fear me and accept correction!’ Then her place of refuge would not be destroyed, nor all my punishments come upon her. But they were still eager to act corruptly in all they did.
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Judges 20:17-48
Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them fit for battle.The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said,“ Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The Lord replied,“ Judah shall go first.”The next morning the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gibeah.The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said,“ Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The Lord answered,“ Go up against them.”Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day.This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.And the Israelites inquired of the Lord.( In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked,“ Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?” The Lord responded,“ Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads— the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.While the Benjamites were saying,“ We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying,“ Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah.Then ten thousand of Israel’s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.Those who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword.The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites( about thirty), and they said,“ We are defeating them as in the first battle.”But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the whole city going up in smoke.Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there.They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.
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Judges 20:13-14
Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites.
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Judges 19:22-30
While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house,“ Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”The owner of the house went outside and said to them,“ No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this outrageous thing.Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.He said to her,“ Get up; let’s go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.Everyone who saw it was saying to one another,“ Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!”
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Genesis 8:21
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart:“ Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
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Judges 20:5
During the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.
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Matthew 23:31-32
So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
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Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
