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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 LEVITE. Hebrew. "the man, the Levite"....
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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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_AND THE LEVITE, THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN THAT WAS SLAIN, ANSWERED AND
SAID, I CAME INTO GIBEAH THAT BELONGETH TO BENJAMIN, I AND MY
CONCUBINE, TO LODGE._
The Levite ... answered and said. The injure...
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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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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 Levite took her body back home and used the knife he used to
slaughter animals to cut the body into twelve pieces to send to all
the tribes of Israel. He invited all the tribes to consider the
ter...
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I pass by the relation of the story itself, (for we had it before in
the preceding chapter) to call the Reader's attention to the Levites
appeal. What are, or ought to be the children of Israel? Moses...
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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 LEVITE, THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN THAT WAS SLAIN, ANSWERED, AND
SAID,.... He rose up, and, in answer to their request, declared the
whole affair as follows: and none so proper as he, who was up...
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And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and
said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to Benjamin, I and my
concubine, to lodge.
Ver. 4. _The husband of the woman._] She was...
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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 Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, at whose
instigation the assembly had convened, ANSWERED AND SAID, I CAME INTO
GIBEAH THAT BELONGETH TO BENJAMIN, I AND MY CONCUBINE, TO LODGE....
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THE BENJAMITES REFUSE TO DELIVER UP THE GUILTY...
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JUSTICE FOR THE GUILTY REFUSED BY BENJAMIN
(vv. 1-13)
All the tribes were united in their insistence that judgment must be
carried out against those who were guilty of criminal abuse and
murder.They...
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THE LEVITE:
_ Heb._ the man the Levite...
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THE LEVITE; to whose relation the other two gave them consent....
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Judges 20:4 Levite H3881 H376 husband H376 woman H802 murdered H7523
(H8737) answered H6030 (H8799) said...
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Judges 20:4 a
‘And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered
and said.'
He stood up before the judges in order to testify to the hearing the
facts of the case.
Judges 20:4 (4b...
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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 20:1
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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Judges 19:15...