King James Version
Judges 20:11 in the King James Version says “So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. knit: Heb. fellows” — study this verse from Judges chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. knit: Heb. fellows”
Judges 20:11 · KJV
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. knit: Heb. fellows
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“were gathered”
H622to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e., remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“So all the men”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“against the city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“So all the men”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
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