Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
WEB
So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
YLT
And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go--and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,
DBT
And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy