King James Version
Judges 20:7 in the King James Version says “Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.” — study this verse from Judges chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.”
Judges 20:7 · KJV
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. forced: Heb. humbled
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“Behold ye are all children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“give”
H3051to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
“your advice”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
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