Judges 20:1

All Israel gathers as one before Yahweh at Mizpah, from Dan to Beersheba. A rare moment of national unity arises in response to the atrocity.

Cross-references · 29

• Judg 11:11So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
• 1 Sam 10:17After this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah
• Judg 21:5The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
• 2 Sam 3:10to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”
• Josh 22:12And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
• 1 Sam 3:20So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.
• Neh 8:1At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
• 2 Sam 24:2So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
• 1 Sam 7:5–6Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
• 1 Sam 11:7–8He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they turned out as one man.
• Judg 20:2The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
• Deut 13:12–18If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
• Judg 20:8Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
• 2 Chr 30:5So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it as a nation as prescribed.
• Num 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
• Judg 10:17Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
• Judg 20:11So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
• 2 Kgs 25:23When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
• Josh 17:1Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.
• Judg 18:29They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
• Judg 20:18The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
• 2 Sam 19:14So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
• Ezra 3:1By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
• 2 Sam 2:9and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
• 1 Chr 21:2So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
• Judg 20:26Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
• Num 32:40So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.
• Josh 15:38Dilan, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
• Josh 18:26Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

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