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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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DREW THEMSELVES ALONG. marched forward....
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_hasted and rushed_ as did the ambush at Ai, Joshua 8:19; but the
words are different. See Judges 9:33 _n._
drew themselves along Cf. Judges 4:6. But the massacre of the
inhabitants anticipates the s...
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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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DREW _themselves_ ALONG] 'moved forward.'...
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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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Results of the ambuscade. (Comp. Joshua 8:15; Joshua 8:19.)
DREW THEMSELVES ALONG. — The marginal suggestion, _made a long sound
with the trumpet,_ is untenable (See Judges 4:6.)
WITH THE EDGE OF THE...
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וְ הָ אֹרֵ֣ב הֵחִ֔ישׁוּ וַֽ
יִּפְשְׁט֖וּ אֶל
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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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_Arose. Hebrew, "drew along (advanced or sounded the trumpet a long
time,") perhaps for a signal, (Calmet) though the firing of the city
seems to have been designed for this purpose, ver. 40. (Haydock...
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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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AND THE LIERS IN WAIT HASTED,.... When the time was come agreed upon
for them to rise out of their ambush:
AND RUSHED UPON GIBEAH; at unawares, with great force and violence
entered the city, and too...
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And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in
wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of
the sword.
Ver. 37. _And the liers in wait hasted._] Here...
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_The children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten_ Namely, when
they saw the flame in Gibeah, as mentioned Judges 20:40. But after
these words, in the following part of the verse, begins a relation...
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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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And the liers-in-wait hasted and rushed upon Gibeah, all these details
being added here in a description of the battle; AND THE LIERS-IN-WAIT
DREW THEMSELVES ALONG, they moved forward steadily, AND SM...
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THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...
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DREW THEMSELVES ALONG:
Or, made a long sound with the trumpet...
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DREW THEMSELVES ALONG, or, _extended themselves_, i.e. whereas before
they lay close and contracted into a narrow compass, now they spread
themselves, and marched in rank and file, as armies do. Or, _...
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Judges 20:37 ambush H693 (H8802) quickly H2363 (H8689) rushed H6584
(H8799) Gibeah H1390 ambush H693 ...
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‘ And the liers in wait acted speedily, and rushed on Gibeah, and
the liers in wait drew (or ‘extended') themselves along and smote
all the city with the edge of the sword.'
“DREW THEMSELVES ALONG” ma...
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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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Exodus 19:13; Joshua 6:5; Joshua 8:19...