Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Judges 20:47
In the rock Rimmon. — This may be quite literally taken, for there are four large caverns in the hill.
In the rock Rimmon. — This may be quite literally taken, for there are four large caverns in the hill.
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...
SIX HUNDRED. Compare Judges 21:13....
A's version of the final flight. The 600 survivors have a part to play in the sequel....
_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...
_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....
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...
וַ יִּפְנ֞וּ וַ יָּנֻ֤סוּ הַ מִּדְבָּ֨רָה֙ אֶ
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...
_Escape. Mercy was shewn to these, as the tribe had been already treated with sufficient severity. St. Jerome says, they were "reserved for the sake of the apostle Paul," (epit. Paul.; Menochius) who...
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. I would not overstrain the holy word, to discover more than it is intended to con...
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...
BUT SIX HUNDRED MEN,.... Who were all that were left of 26,700 TURNED AND FLED TO THE WILDERNESS; turned out of the highway or common road, and being swift of foot, got to a wilderness; what wilderne...
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. Ver. 47. _Unto the rock Rimmon._] Wherein there was a sweet providence, that thes...
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...
But six hundred men turned and tied to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, they effected their escape and fortified themselves in the fastnesses of this rocky wilderness, AND ABODE IN THE ROCK RIMMON...
THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...
In a cave within that rock, where they fortified themselves and fetched in provision as they had opportunity; which they could easily do, when the heat of the battle was over, and the Israelites were...
Judges 20:47 six H8337 hundred H3967 men H376 turned H6437 (H8799) fled H5127 (H8799) wilderness H4057 rock...
‘ But six hundred men turned and fled towards the wilderness, to the Rock of Rimmon, and they lived in the Rock of Rimmon for four months.' Of the army that started out only six hundred identifiable m...
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 20:47 Despite the defeat, 600 MEN of Benjamin survived to become the core of the renewed tribe (Judges 21:13)....
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...
Habakkuk 3:2; Isaiah 1:9; Jeremiah 14:7; Judges 21:13; Lamentations 3: