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Judges 20:29

American Standard Version

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

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Judges 20:29 in other translations

Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

Judges 20:29 · World English Bible

Judges 20:29 in context

  1. 27And the children of Israel asked of Jehovah (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
  2. 28and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And Jehovah said, Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand.
  3. 29And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
  4. 30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
  5. 31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.