Bible verse
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
Judges 21:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 21.
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
2 So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
3 “Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
4 The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
6 And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
KJV
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
ASV
And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
ERV
And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
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