Judges 20:29
King James Version (KJV)
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
In context
27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
28 And 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 the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20:29 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
- WEB World English Bible
- Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Israel setteth liers in wait against Gibeah, round about,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Israel set liers in wait around Gibeah.