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CHAPTER 20 THE HORRIBLE WAR
_ 1. The Levite's story (Judges 20:1)_
2. The uprising (Judges 20:8)
3. The slaying of the Israelites (Judges 20:12)
4. Benjamin exterminated except six hundred men ...
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JUDGES 20. THE OUTRAGE AVENGED.The congregation (LXX Synagô gç) is a
post-exilic term. The words as one man suggest a unity of action such
as was not secured till long after the time of the Judges. Th...
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To make sense this and Judges 20:23 should change places. After _the
men of Israel_the Vulgate adds _trusting to their prowess and
numbers_, i.e. it was the presumption of the Israelites which caused...
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_Israel Defeated in Two Battles Judges 20:17-23_
17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred
thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
18 And the children of I...
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_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ROSE UP IN THE MORNING, AND ENCAMPED
AGAINST GIBEAH._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE SLAUGHTER OF THE BENJAMITES
The Levite recounts his wrongs to a full assemblage of the tribes, who
decree punishment upon Benjamin. Their first two attacks are
unsuccessful, but the third results...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 20
V1 Then all the *Israelites from Dan to Beersheba came to meet
together. They also came from the area called Gilead. They all met at
Mizpah, wher...
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ENCOURAGED THEMSELVES. — Trusting, as the Vulgate adds, in their
courage and numbers....
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וַ יִּתְחַזֵּ֥ק הָ עָ֖ם אִ֣ישׁ
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַ
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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The action of the Levite served its purpose. The nation was stirred
momentarily to its center. A great moral passion flamed out.
Underneath all the degeneracy was a true stratum of religious
convictio...
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The other tribes called upon Benjamin to release to them the wicked
men that they might be put to death in accord with the law
(Deuteronomy 22:22). By refusing to release them, the rest of the
tribe o...
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Trusting in their strength. The Lord suffered them to be overthrown,
and many of them to be slain, though their cause was just; partly in
punishment of the idolatry which they exercised or tolerated i...
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The apparent success of Benjamin, is a lively representation of the
seeming success of Satan, in the holy war. How frequently are God's
people apparently worsted, and in the conflict, prompted to excl...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21.
The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical
order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of
the...
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AND THE PEOPLE, THE MEN OF ISRAEL, ENCOURAGED THEMSELVES,.... That
though they had lost a great number of men, yet still their forces
were large and greatly superior to those of Benjamin, and above al...
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And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their
battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array
the first day.
Ver. 22. _Encouraged themselves._] Not in th...
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_The men of Israel encouraged_ Hebrew, _strengthened themselves_,
supporting themselves with the consciousness of the justice of their
cause, and putting themselves in better order for defending
thems...
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1 The Leuite in a generall assembly declareth his wrong.
8 The decree of the assembly.
12 The Beniamites being cited, make head against the Israelites.
18 The Israelites in two battels loose fourty...
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ENCOURAGED THEMSELVES, Heb. _strengthened themselves_; partly by
supporting themselves with the conscience of the justice of their
cause, and the hopes of success; and partly by putting themselves in...
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Judges 20:22 people H5971 men H376 Israel H3478 encouraged H2388
(H8691) again H3254 (H8686) battle H4421 line...
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Judges 20:22 a
‘And the people, the men of Israel, made themselves strong.'
This may indicate that they brought up further reinforcements as a
result of messengers going back to the main force with...
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CONTENTS: Civil war in which the Benjamites are punished.
CHARACTERS: God, a Levite, Phinehas.
CONCLUSION: We cannot expect the presence of God with us in our
enterprises unless we seek it by humblin...
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Judges 20:11. _All the men of Israel were knit together._ Why had they
not assembled against Micah and his chapel of gods? Then this and
other evils might have been prevented. This was a just and nece...
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_The men of Israel turned again upon the children of BenJamin._
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
It may be asked how, while polygamy was practised among the
Israelites, the sin of Gibeah could rouse such...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 20:1 Gibeah was a Benjaminite city, and so an
assembly of all Israel came together at Mizpah to take action against
Benjamin (vv. Judges 20:1). The Benjaminites, who apparently w...
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THE CRY FOR VENGEANCE
(Judges 20:1.)
_HOMILETICS_
1. _This cry was universal_ (Judges 20:1).
“From Dan to Beershebah, with Gilead.” There was not a dissentient
voice.
2. _They were in earnest_ (Ju...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 20:18
THE HOUSE OF GOD. In this rendering the A.V. follows the Vulgate,
which has _in domum Dei, hoc est, in Silo. _But the Septuagint has
Βαιθὴλ, and all the ancient authorities,...
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Now it had what he hoped it would have. It had a shock effect upon the
tribes. They were horrified to get part of a torso, a leg, an arm, a
head and they gathered together and this man told them the e...
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1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Samuel 11:25; Judges 20:15; Judges 20:17; Psalms 64:5
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Encouraged — Heb. strengthened themselves, supporting themselves
with the consciousness of the justice of their cause, and putting
themselves in better order for defending themselves, and annoying
the...