12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What about this awful crime that was committed among you?


In Context

9 But now this is what we'll do to Gibeah: We'll go up against it as the lot directs.

10 We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for all this vileness done in Israel."

11 So all the men of Israel got together and united as one man against the city.

12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What about this awful crime that was committed among you?

13 Now surrender those wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel." But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

14 From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites.

Judges 20:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin to say to them: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, |What wickedness is this that has taken place among you?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, |What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel send men among all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, 'What is this evil which hath been among you?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?