George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Judges 20:33
Baalthamar, the plain of Jericho; (Chaldean) or rather a village in the vicinity of Gabaa, which Eusebius calls Besthamar.
Baalthamar, the plain of Jericho; (Chaldean) or rather a village in the vicinity of Gabaa, which Eusebius calls Besthamar.
Verse Judges 20:33. _PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AT BAAL-TAMAR_] The Israelites seem to have divided their army into three divisions; one was at Baal-tamar, a second behind the city in ambush, and the thi...
Baal-tamar is only mentioned here. It took its name from some palm-tree that grew there; perhaps the same as the “palm-tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel” Judges 4:5, the exact locality here in...
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 ...
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...
MEADOWS. Probably. forest....
_rose up … set themselves in array_ The Israelites had taken up their position opposite Gibeah and then retired northwards (Judges 20:30); now, apparently, after the feigned retreat they take up a sec...
_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...
_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._ Ba...
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...
BAALTAMAR] unknown....
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...
PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AT BAAL-TAMAR. — This is either a detail added out of place (so that we might almost suppose that there has been some accidental transposition of clauses), or it means that whe...
וְ כֹ֣ל ׀ אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל קָ֚מוּ מִ מְּקֹו
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL ROSE UP OUT OF THEIR PLACE,.... The main body of the army, which fled before Benjamin, when they were come to a proper place, stopped, and rose up out of it, and stood in the...
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. Ve...
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...
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, they relinquished their advanced position, AND PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY, forming a new line of battle, AT BAAL-TAMAR (place of palms); AND THE LIER...
THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...
OUT OF THEIR PLACE; where they had disposed themselves, that they might fall upon the Benjamites, when they were drawn forth to a sufficient distance from their city, and when they were pursuing that...
Judges 20:33 men H376 Israel H3478 rose H6965 (H8804) place H4725 array H6186 (H8799) Tamar H1193 Israels...
Judges 20:33 a ‘And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar.' These men who ‘rose up out of their place' were probably a large force lying in ambush...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
Joshua 8:18...