Judges 20:7 Cross References - Thomson

⁷ behold you are all Israelites; Advise and consult here for yourselves.

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine: ⁶ but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel.

⁶ Therefore keep them, and practise them. For this will be your wisdom, and your understanding, in the sight of all the nations. Whoever shall chance to hear all these rules of rectitude, will say, Behold this is a wise and understanding people a great nation.

¹ You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not make a baldness between your eyes for the dead. ² Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations on the face of the earth,

¹⁴ Then the rulers took some of their provisions, and did not consult the Lord.

³⁰ Whereupon every one who saw them said, There never was such a thing done or seen from the day the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day. Appoint for yourselves a counsel over her and speak.

¹⁸ [Omitted]

⁶ By government war is conducted! and help is the attendant of a heart instructed by counsel.

¹ It is currently reported that there is among you an act of lewdness, and of such a sort as is not named among the nations, so that one hath his father's wife:

⁶ This boasting of yours is unbecoming. Do you not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mixture?

¹⁰ not including in general the fornicators of this world, nor those who are immoderate in their desires, or rapacious, or idolaters; since in that case you must needs have gone out of the world. ¹¹ But this is what I now write to you, that if any one named a brother, be a fornicator, or one who gratifieth immoderate desires, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, you are not to associate; no, nor eat with such a one. ¹² For what have I to do with passing sentence on those who are without? Is not this the case? On those within you are to pass sentence,

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.