Encouraged — Heb. strengthened themselves, supporting themselves with the consciousness of the justice of their cause, and putting themselves in better order for defending themselves, and annoying their enemies.
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...
To make sense this and Judges 20:23 should change places. After _the men of Israel_the Vulgate adds _trusting to their prowess and numbers_, i.e. it was the presumption of the Israelites which caused...
_Israel Defeated in Two Battles Judges 20:17-23_ 17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. 18 And the children of I...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ROSE UP IN THE MORNING, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST GIBEAH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
ENCOURAGED THEMSELVES. — Trusting, as the Vulgate adds, in their courage and numbers....
וַ יִּתְחַזֵּ֥ק הָ עָ֖ם אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַ
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...
Trusting in their strength. The Lord suffered them to be overthrown, and many of them to be slain, though their cause was just; partly in punishment of the idolatry which they exercised or tolerated i...
The apparent success of Benjamin, is a lively representation of the seeming success of Satan, in the holy war. How frequently are God's people apparently worsted, and in the conflict, prompted to excl...
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 THE PEOPLE, THE MEN OF ISRAEL, ENCOURAGED THEMSELVES,.... That though they had lost a great number of men, yet still their forces were large and greatly superior to those of Benjamin, and above al...
And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day. Ver. 22. _Encouraged themselves._] Not in th...
_The men of Israel encouraged_ Hebrew, _strengthened themselves_, supporting themselves with the consciousness of the justice of their cause, and putting themselves in better order for defending thems...
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...
THE REVERSES OF ISRAEL...
And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, they invested themselves with new strength, AND SET THEIR BATTLE AGAIN IN ARRAY IN THE PLACE WHERE THEY PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY THE FIRST DAY,...
ENCOURAGED THEMSELVES, Heb. _strengthened themselves_; partly by supporting themselves with the conscience of the justice of their cause, and the hopes of success; and partly by putting themselves in...
Judges 20:22 people H5971 men H376 Israel H3478 encouraged H2388 (H8691) again H3254 (H8686) battle H4421 line...
Judges 20:22 a ‘And the people, the men of Israel, made themselves strong.' This may indicate that they brought up further reinforcements as a result of messengers going back to the main force with...
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...
1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Samuel 11:25; Judges 20:15; Judges 20:17; Psalms 64:5