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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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_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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וַ יָּק֥וּמוּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּ
† בֹּ֑קֶר...
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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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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 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ROSE UP IN THE MORNING,.... After they had
had counsel at Shiloh, and which perhaps was by a deputation sent
thither:
AND ENCAMPED AGAINST GIBEAH: formed a camp near Gibeah...
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And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped
against Gibeah.
Ver. 19. _And the men of Israel went out to battle._] They went forth
as men do to a lottery, with their heads full of...
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_The children of Israel encamped against Gibeah_ It seems from these
words that Judah only led the van, as we now speak, and stood in the
front of the battle, to make the first assault; but that all t...
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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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THE REVERSES OF ISRAEL...
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And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against
Gibeah, they set themselves in battle array....
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 20:19 children H1121 Israel H3478 rose H6965 (H8799) morning
H1242 encamped H2583 (H8799) Gibeah H1390...
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‘ And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped
against Gibeah.'
The forty units of the tribal confederacy, with Judah to the fore,
marched to Gibeah and encamped near the city. (Not...
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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...