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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 MEN. every one....
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This _v._(from B) records the destruction of the Benjamites who had
not taken part in the conflict.
_the entire city_ The marg. is to be preferred, lit. _the city of
men_, a phrase only found again in...
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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 MEN OF ISRAEL TURNED AGAIN UPON THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN, AND
SMOTE THEM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AS WELL THE MEN OF EVERY CITY,
AS THE BEAST, AND ALL THAT CAME TO HAND: ALSO THEY SET ON F...
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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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THE MEN OF _every_ CITY] RV 'the entire city,' or, as RM, 'the
inhabited city.'...
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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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AS WELL THE MEN OF EVERY CITY, AS THE BEAST. — The phrase is
literally, _from the city, men down to beast,_ reading _methim,_
“men,” for _methom,_ “entire.” The dreadful meaning which lies
beyond thes...
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וְ אִ֨ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל שָׁ֣בוּ אֶל
־בְּנֵ֤י בִ
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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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And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and
smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every]
city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on...
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_And villages, is not expressed in Hebrew, &c. But as both cities, and
all the inhabitants were destroyed, the villages would share the same
fate, (Haydock) as being under a curse. The Israelites conc...
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And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and
smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city,
as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fi...
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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 MEN OF ISRAEL TURNED AGAIN UPON THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN,....
After they had destroyed their army, the city of Gibeah, and the
inhabitants of it: not content with this, in their wrath and fury...
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And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and
smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every]
city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on...
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_The men of Israel turned again_, &c. Left their pursuit of the
Benjamites in the wilderness, and turned toward the country of
Benjamin. Those that came to Gibeah and into the field, whom the
Israelit...
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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 men of Israel, in a fury which knew no mercy, TURNED AGAIN
UPON THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN, on the defenseless part of the
population, old people, women, and children, AND SMOTE THEM WITH THE
ED...
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THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...
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CAME TO HAND:
_ Heb._ was found
THEY CAME TO:
_ Heb._ were found...
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Having destroyed those that came to Gibeah, and into the field, now
they follow them home to their several habitations. THE MEN OF EVERY
CITY; comprehensively taken, so as to include women and childre...
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Judges 20:48 men H376 Israel H3478 against H7725 (H8804) children
H1121 Benjamin H1144 down H5221 (H8686) edge...
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‘ And the men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin,
and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city and
the cattle and all that they found. Moreover all the cities that t...
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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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2 Chronicles 25:13; 2 Chronicles 28:6; Deuteronomy 13:15; Proverbs
18:19...
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Turned again — Having destroyed those that came to Gibeah, and into
the field, now they follow them home to their several habitations. Men
— Comprehensively taken, so as to include women and children....