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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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THE CITY. the whole city, or holocaust of the city....
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_looked behind them_ Cf. Joshua 8:20. It almost seems as if the
account of the capture of Ai by a similar stratagem had influenced the
present narrative.
_the whole of the city_ Cf. Deuteronomy 13:16...
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_The Defeat of the Benjamites Judges 20:24-48_
24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of
Benjamin the second day,
25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second...
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_AND THE LORD SMOTE BENJAMIN BEFORE ISRAEL: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
DESTROYED OF THE BENJAMITES THAT DAY TWENTY AND FIVE THOUSAND AND AN
HUNDRED MEN: ALL THESE DREW THE SWORD._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON...
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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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WHEN THE FLAME BEGAN TO ARISE UP. — Rather, _when the column_ (of
smoke), as in Judges 20:38.
THE FLAME OF THE CITY. — Literally, _the whole of the city_ —
i.e., the universal conflagration — a very...
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וְ הַ מַּשְׂאֵ֗ת הֵחֵ֛לָּה לַ עֲלֹ֥ות
מִן
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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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Here we see that through the whole the victory was not doubtful. The
Lord hereby taught Israel, who perhaps vaunted more upon the strength
of their numbers, compared to Benjamin and Gibeah, than simpl...
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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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BUT WHEN THE FLAME BEGAN TO ARISE UP OUT OF THE CITY WITH A PILLAR OF
SMOKE,.... Fire being set to it by the liers in wait, who had entered
it, and who made a large fire, which caused a vast pillar of...
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But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of
smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of
the city ascended up to heaven.
Ver. 40. _The flame of the ci...
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_The Benjamites looked behind them_ It is likely the Israelites
shouted when they turned about to fall upon the Benjamites, which made
them look back to see what unexpected supplies they had received....
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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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FLAME:
_ Heb._ the whole consumption...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 20:40 cloud H4864 began H2490 (H8689) rise H5927 (H8800) city
H5892 column H5982 smoke H6227 Benjamit
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‘ But when the cloud began to rise up out of the city in a pillar of
smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold the whole of
the city went up in smoke to heaven.'
A huge pillar of smoke as...
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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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Genesis 19:28; Joel 2:30; Joshua 8:20; Revelation 19:3; Song of