_THEN ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT OUT, AND THE CONGREGATION WAS GATHERED TOGETHER AS ONE MAN, FROM DAN_ _ THEN ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT OUT, AND THE CONGREGATION WAS GATHERED TOGETHER AS ONE MAN, FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA, WITH THE LAND OF GILEAD, UNTO THE LORD IN MIZPEH._ All ... the c... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHIEF OF ALL THE PEOPLE, EVEN OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, PRESENTED THEMSELVES IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN THAT DREW SWORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_(NOW THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN HEARD THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE GONE UP TO MIZPEH.) THEN SAID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TELL US, HOW WAS THIS WICKEDNESS?_ Now the children of Benjamin heard. Some suppose that Benjamin had been passed over, the crime having been perpetrated within the territory... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 injured husband gave a brief and unvarnished recital of the tragic outrage, from which it appears that for... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF GIBEAH ROSE AGAINST ME, AND BESET THE HOUSE ROUND ABOUT UPON ME BY NIGHT, AND THOUGHT TO HAVE SLAIN ME: AND MY CONCUBINE HAVE THEY FORCED, THAT SHE IS DEAD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE PEOPLE AROSE AS ONE MAN, SAYING, WE WILL NOT ANY OF US GO TO HIS TENT, NEITHER WILL WE ANY OF US TURN INTO HIS HOUSE._ All the people arose as one man. The extraordinary unanimity that prevailed shows that, notwithstanding great disorders had broken out in many parts, the people were s... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT NOW THIS SHALL BE THE THING WHICH WE WILL DO TO GIBEAH; WE WILL GO UP BY LOT AGAINST IT;_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WE WILL TAKE TEN MEN OF AN HUNDRED THROUGHOUT ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, AND AN HUNDRED OF A THOUSAND, AND A THOUSAND OUT OF TEN THOUSAND, TO FETCH VICTUAL FOR THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY MAY DO, WHEN THEY COME TO GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN, ACCORDING TO ALL THE FOLLY THAT THEY HAVE WROUGHT IN ISRAEL._ We wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE GATHERED AGAINST THE CITY, KNIT TOGETHER AS ONE MAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER OUT OF THE CITIES UNTO GIBEAH, TO GO OUT TO BATTLE AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah. Allowing their THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER OU... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 OF GIBEAH, WHICH WERE NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED CHOSEN MEN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 earliest weapons used in war. The Hebrew sling was probably similar to that of the Egyptian, consisting... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL, BESIDE BENJAMIN, WERE NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN THAT DREW SWORD: ALL THESE WERE MEN OF WAR._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AROSE, AND WENT UP TO THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND ASKED COUNSEL OF GOD, AND SAID, WHICH OF US SHALL GO UP FIRST TO THE BATTLE AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN? AND THE LORD SAID, JUDAH SHALL GO UP FIRST._ The children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God. This cons... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ROSE UP IN THE MORNING, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST GIBEAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISRAEL SET LIERS IN WAIT ROUND ABOUT GIBEAH._ Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. A plan was formed of taking that city by stratagem, similar to that employed in the capture of Ai.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT UP AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN ON THE THIRD DAY, AND PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST GIBEAH, AS AT OTHER TIMES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL ROSE UP OUT OF THEIR PLACE, AND PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AT BAALTAMAR: AND THE LIERS IN WAIT OF ISRAEL CAME FORTH OUT OF THEIR PLACES, EVEN OUT OF THE MEADOWS OF GIBEAH._ Baal-tamar - a palm grove where Baal was worshipped. The main army of the confederate tribes was drawn... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE CAME AGAINST GIBEAH TEN THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN OUT OF ALL ISRAEL, AND THE BATTLE WAS SORE: BUT THEY KNEW NOT THAT EVIL WAS NEAR THEM._ Ten thousand chosen men. This was a third division, different both from the ambuscade and the army who were fighting at Baal-tamar. The general account stat... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TURNED AND FLED TOWARD THE WILDERNESS UNTO THE ROCK OF RIMMON: AND THEY GLEANED OF THEM IN THE HIGHWAYS FIVE THOUSAND MEN; AND PURSUED HARD AFTER THEM UNTO GIDOM, AND SLEW TWO THOUSAND MEN OF THEM._ The rock of Rimmon. Numbers of the fugitives found refuge in the caves of this rocky mount... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THAT ALL WHICH FELL THAT DAY OF BENJAMIN WERE TWENTY AND FIVE THOUSAND MEN THAT DREW THE SWORD; ALL THESE WERE MEN OF VALOUR._ All which fell that day of Benjamin. Upon comparing this with Judges 20:35, it will be seen that the loss is stated here in round numbers, and is confined only to that... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT SIX HUNDRED MEN TURNED AND FLED TO THE WILDERNESS UNTO THE ROCK RIMMON, AND ABODE IN THE ROCK RIMMON FOUR MONTHS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 FIRE ALL THE CITIES THAT THEY CAME TO._ The men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin... [ Continue Reading ]