Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Judges 20:8
They bound themselves not to break up and disperse until they had punished the wickedness of Gibeah.
They bound themselves not to break up and disperse until they had punished the wickedness of Gibeah.
Verse Judges 20:8. _WE WILL NOT ANY_ OF US _GO TO HIS TENT_] We will have satisfaction for this wickedness before we return home....
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...
_tent_ As the parallelism shews, equivalent to house, cf. Judges 19:9 mg., 1 Kings 8:66; Psalms 132:3 _tent of my house_; a survival from the time when the Israelites actually lived in tents. The reso...
_The War Against the Benjamites Judges 20:1-14_ Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land _of_ Gilead...
_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 p...
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...
AROSE AS ONE MAN. — The same words are rendered “with one consent” in 1 Samuel 11:7. TO HIS TENT.... INTO HIS HOUSE. — Possibly many of the Trans-jordanic Israelites, who were chiefly graziers, were...
וַ יָּ֨קָם֙ כָּל ־הָ עָ֔ם כְּ אִ֥ישׁ
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 Levite took her body back home and used the knife he used to slaughter animals to cut the body into twelve pieces to send to all the tribes of Israel. He invited all the tribes to consider the ter...
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 (f) house. (f) Before we have avenged this wickedness....
Oh! that all the tribes of Jesus were so consolidated in his cause, and so united to him, their great head, and to each other as the members of his mystical body: what might not be expected in their z...
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 PEOPLE AROSE AS ONE MAN,.... Either the heads of the people assembled in council, all agreed unanimously in one vote or resolution, or all the 400,000 men were of the same mind, when the c...
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. Ver. 8. _And all the people arose as one man, saying._] For the p...
_Ye are_ The sons of that holy man, who, for one filthy action, left an eternal brand upon one of his own sons: a people in covenant with the holy God, whose honour you are obliged to vindicate, and w...
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 BENJAMITES REFUSE TO DELIVER UP THE GUILTY...
And all the people arose as one man, with energetic unanimity, SAYING, WE WILL NOT ANY OF US GO TO HIS TENT, return home, NEITHER WILL WE ANY OF US TURN INTO HIS HOUSE, for even a short stay, until th...
JUSTICE FOR THE GUILTY REFUSED BY BENJAMIN (vv. 1-13) All the tribes were united in their insistence that judgment must be carried out against those who were guilty of criminal abuse and murder.They...
WE WILL NOT ANY OF US GO TO HIS TENT, i.e. his habitation, to wit, until we have revenged this injury....
Judges 20:8 people H5971 arose H6965 (H8799) one H259 man H376 saying H559 (H8800) None H376 go...
‘ 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.” ' The verdict was unanimous. All were agreed, as indeed they had...
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 20:1 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...
Ecclesiastes 9:10; Judges 20:1; Judges 20:11; Judges 21:1; Judges 21:5;
His tent — That is, his habitation, until we have revenged this injury....