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 simply leaned upon the arm of Jehovah, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. And are not God's people taught the same now, when at any time tempted to trust an arm of flesh?
Verse Judges 20:26. _AND WEPT_] Had they humbled themselves, fasted, and prayed, and offered sacrifices at first, they had not been discomfited. _AND FASTED THAT DAY UNTIL EVEN_] This is the first p...
FASTED UNTIL EVEN - The regular time for ending a fast among the Hebrews was sunset (compare 1 Samuel 14:24; 2 Samuel 1:12). Such national fasts are called by the rabbis “fasts of the congregation,” a...
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...
_and all the people_ Either transl. EVEN _all the people_, or omit as a doublet of _all the children of Israel_. Cf. Judges 20:22. _offered burnt offerings and peace offerings_ Similarly under circums...
_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 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...
HOUSE OF GOD] RV 'Bethel.' BURNT OFFERINGS.. PEACE OFFERINGS] Sacrifices in which the whole was consumed on the altar, and sacrifices in which part was eaten by the worshippers at a common meal. 27, 2...
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...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE — i.e., the non-combatants as well as the fighting men. UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD. — Rather, _to Bethel,_ as in Judges 20:18. AND WEPT. — These two battles must have caused an almost u...
וַ יַּעֲל֣וּ כָל ־בְּנֵי֩ יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל וְ כָל
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...
_Evening. Till then the Jews never eat on fasting days. The Turks still do the like: but they only change day into night, as they sleep till sunset, and then begin to feast and to make merry. (Calmet)...
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...
THEN ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND ALL THE PEOPLE WENT UP, AND CAME UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD,.... This looks as if the whole body of the army, with other people from parts adjacent, went up to the taber...
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and p...
_All the people went up_ Not only all the warriors, but other people. _And wept, and sat before the Lord_ Sensible of their not having been before truly humbled for their sins, which they seem now to...
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...
Then all the children of Israel, the soldiers, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, the non-combatants that had come along with the army, WENT UP, AND CAME UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD, apparently again to Bethel, AND WEPT,...
THE REVERSES OF ISRAEL...
SAT THERE BEFORE THE LORD, and fasted; being now sensible of their former slightness, and now being truly humbled for their sins, which now they discover to be the true cause of their ill success. OFF...
Judges 20:26 children H1121 Israel H3478 people H5971 up H5927 (H8799) came H935 (H8799) house H1004 God...
‘ Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to the house of God, and wept and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening.' The second defeat brought them to...
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 20:25 The fasting and sacrificing of the Israelites is very rare in this period. See note on 2:5. ⇐...
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 7:6; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21; Ezra 9:4; Ezra 9:5;...
Fasted — Sensible of their not being truly humbled for their sins, which now they discover to be the cause of their ill success. Burnt, &c. — To make atonement to God for their own sins. Peace — offer...