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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DREW THEMSELVES ALONG. marched forward....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DREW _themselves_ ALONG] 'moved forward.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָ אֹרֵ֣ב הֵחִ֔ישׁוּ וַֽ יִּפְשְׁט֖וּ אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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, _...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 20:37 ambush H693 (H8802) quickly H2363 (H8689) rushed H6584 (H8799) Gibeah H1390 ambush H693 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ 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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 19:13; Joshua 6:5; Joshua 8:19...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Drew along — Or, extended themselves; whereas before they lay close and contracted into a narrow compass, now they spread themselves, and marched in rank and file as armies do....

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