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Verse Judges 20:13. _DELIVER_ US _THE MEN_] Nothing could be fairer
than this. They wish only to make the murderers answerable for their
guilt.
_BENJAMIN WOULD NOT HEARKEN_] Thus making their whole...
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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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_deliver up the men … that we may put them to death_ Similarly 1
Samuel 11:12.
_the sons of Belial_ See on Judges 19:22.
_put away evil_ Read the _evil_, lit. _burn up, consume the evil_; a
frequent...
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_The War Against the Benjamites Judges 20:1-14_
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was
gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the
land _of_ Gilead...
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_SO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE GATHERED AGAINST THE CITY, KNIT
TOGETHER AS ONE MAN._
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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THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN WOULD NOT HEARKEN. — They were actuated by
the same bad spirit of solidarity which has often made Highland clans
defend a member of their body who has committed some grave out...
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וְ עַתָּ֡ה תְּנוּ֩ אֶת ־הָ אֲנָשִׁ֨ים
בְּנֵֽי
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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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Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which
[are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from
Israel. But the children of Benjamin (i) would not hearken to t...
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This fair appeal common justice required. The wicked only are to be
punished in his iniquity. And this with a view also, to stop the
execution of God's wrath. How lost therefore was Benjamin to refuse...
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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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NOW, THEREFORE, DELIVER US THE MEN, THE CHILDREN OF BELIAL, WHICH ARE
IN GIBEAH,.... Those wicked men that were the authors of that
abominable wickedness there committed:
THAT WE MAY PUT THEM TO DEAT...
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Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which
[are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from
Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the v...
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_That we may put away evil from Israel_ Both the guilt and punishment
wherein all Israel will be involved if they do not punish it. _The
children of Benjamin would not hearken_ From the pride of their...
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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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Now, therefore, deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are
in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from
Israel. By the punishment of the criminals, delivered up to justi...
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THE BENJAMITES REFUSE TO DELIVER UP THE GUILTY...
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PUT AWAY EVIL; both the guilt and the punishment, wherein all Israel
will be involved, if they do not punish it. THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN
WOULD NOT HEARKEN; partly, from the pride of their hearts, whi...
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Judges 20:13 deliver H5414 (H8798) men H582 men H1121 H1100 Gibeah
H1390 death H4191 (H8686) remove...
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Judges 20:12 a
‘And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribes of
Benjamin.'
The plural for tribes is used indicating sub-tribes (as in Numbers
4:18; 1 Samuel 9:21). The emphasis is on the...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 20:12 PURGE EVIL FROM ISRAEL (compare
Deuteronomy 13:5;...
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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 20:1
WENT OUT, _i.e._ from their several homes to the place of meeting. THE
CONGREGATION. The technical term (not, however, found in Samuel and
Kings, except in 1 Kings 12:20) for t...
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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 Kings 21:13; 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 Samuel 30:22; 2 Chronicles 13:7;...