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Verse Judges 20:16. _LEFT-HANDED_] They were _ambidexters _- could use
the right hand and the left with equal ease and effect. Judges 1:3,
:15.
_COULD SLING STONES AT A HAIR - AND NOT MISS_] ולא יחט...
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Comparing the numbers here with those in Numbers 1; Numbers 26, it is
seen that in the case both of the Benjamites and the Israelites the
numbers are diminished by about one-third, i. e., they appear...
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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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Then, keeping the text of this _v._as it stands, we are told that the
Benjamite host included a company of 700 left-handed and exceptionally
skilful warriors, just as David's army was strengthened by...
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_Seven Hundred Left-handed Men Chosen Judges 20:15-16_
15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the
cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the
inhabitants...
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_AMONG ALL THIS PEOPLE THERE WERE SEVEN HUNDRED CHOSEN MEN LEFTHANDED;
EVERY ONE COULD SLING STONES AT AN HAIR BREADTH, AND NOT MISS._
Left-handed; every one could sling. The sling was one of the ear...
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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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SEVEN HUNDRED CHOSEN MEN. — These words are omitted in the LXX. and
Vulg.
LEFT HANDED. — The same phrase as that employed in Judges 3:15.
COULD SLING STONES AT AN HAIR BREADTH, AND NOT MISS. — The
ex...
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מִ כֹּ֣ל ׀ הָ עָ֣ם הַ זֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע
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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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Right. Septuagint, "ambidextrous." Moderns generally translate the
Hebrew, "left-handed." But we have seen that such a meaning is
improbable, chap. iii. 15. --- Side. The inhabitants of Palestine
form...
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The disposition of the army of Israel, and then asking counsel from
the Lord, is a sweet token for good. And, as the Lord appointed Judah
to lead, who doth not see shadowed out in this, the early toke...
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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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AMONG ALL THIS PEOPLE THERE WERE SEVEN HUNDRED CHOSEN MEN
LEFTHANDED,.... According to Ben Gersom, these were the seven hundred
men of Gibeah; but this does not appear from the text, but, on the
contr...
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Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not
miss.
Ver. 16. _Lefthanded; every one could sling stones, &c._] See...
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_Could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss_ A hyperbolical
expression, signifying that they could do this with great exactness.
This extraordinary skill in their arms (for it is likely they...
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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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Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed,
literally, "deprived of the use of their right hand"; EVERYONE COULD
SLING STONES AT AN HAIR BREADTH, AND NOT MISS. Since the Ben...
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THE REVERSES OF ISRAEL...
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LEFT-HANDED, Heb. _shut up on their right hand_, i.e. using their left
hand instead of their right. EVERY ONE COULD SLING STONES AT AN HAIR
BREADTH, AND NOT MISS; an hyperbolical expression, signifyin...
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Judges 20:16 people H5971 seven H7651 hundred H3967 select H977
(H8803) men H376 left-handed H334 H3027...
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‘ Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men,
left-handed, every one could sling stones at a hair breadth and not
miss.'
Each unit would have a number of slingers and in all they number...
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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 20:15 26,000 MEN. The Benjaminite force, large
as it was, equaled only a small fraction of the Israelite coalition
(400,000 men; v. Judges 20:17
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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 Chronicles 12:2; 1 Samuel 17:40; 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 17:50;...
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Not miss — An hyperbolical expression, signifying, that they could
do this with great exactness. And this was very considerable and one
ground of the Benjamites confidence....