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 11:11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
• 1 Sam 10:17Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
• Judg 21:5The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
• 2 Sam 3:10to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
• Josh 22:12When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
• 1 Sam 3:20All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
• Neh 8:1All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
• 2 Sam 24:2The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
• 1 Sam 7:5–6Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
• 1 Sam 11:7–8He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
• Judg 20:2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
• Deut 13:12–18If you shall hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
• Judg 20:8All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
• 2 Chr 30:5So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.
• Num 32:1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
• Judg 10:17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
• Judg 20:11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
• 2 Kgs 25:23Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
• Josh 17:1This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
• Judg 18:29They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
• Judg 20:18The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”
• 2 Sam 19:14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
• Ezra 3:1When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
• 2 Sam 2:9and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
• 1 Chr 21:2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
• Judg 20:26Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
• Num 32:40Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
• Josh 15:38Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
• Josh 18:26Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

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