Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 20:16
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
LEFTHANDED. Hebrew lame, or bound, in his right hand. HAIR BREADTH. a hair. No _Ellipsis,_ omit "breadth". MISS. Hebrew. _chata'._ See App-44....
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
מִ כֹּ֣ל ׀ הָ עָ֣ם הַ זֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
THE REVERSES OF ISRAEL...
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...
Judges 20:16 people H5971 seven H7651 hundred H3967 select H977 (H8803) men H376 left-handed H334 H3027...
‘ 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...
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...
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
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 20:1 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...
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...
1 Chronicles 12:2; 1 Samuel 17:40; 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 17:50;...