Judges 20:29
What meaning of the judges 20:29 in the Bible?
What does Judges 20:29 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah."
What does Judges 20:29 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah."
Verse Judges 20:29. _ISRAEL SET LIERS IN WAIT_] Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only in the use of the proper means. They used all prudent precaution, and employed...
The stratagem described is exactly that by which Joshua took Ai (marginal reference)....
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 (Ju...
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...
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From the narrative A, which describes, not the two battles and Jehovah's direct interference (Judges 20:23_; Judges 20:28; Judges 20:35_), but the stratagem by which the Israelites captured the city;...
_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 ISRAEL SET LIERS IN WAIT ROUND ABOUT GIBEAH._ Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. A plan was formed of taking that city by stratagem, similar to that employed in the capture of Ai....
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...
SET LIERS IN WAIT. — This exceedingly simple and primitive stratagem had also been successful against Ai (Joshua 8:4) and against Shechem (Judges 9:43). Here, as in Judges 20:22, the narrative follows...
וַ יָּ֤שֶׂם יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֹֽרְבִ֔ים אֶל ־הַ גִּבְעָ֖ה סָבִֽיב׃ פ...
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 THESE last Chapter s describe a general and vehement outburst of moral indignation throughout Israel, reco...
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...
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 simpl...
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 ISRAEL SET LIERS IN WAIT ROUND ABOUT GIBEAH. For though they were assured of success and victory, yet they thought proper to make use of means: and though their numbers were very great, they had r...
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. Ver. 29. _And Israel set liers in wait._] See the like strategem used at Ai. Jos 8:4-5...
_Israel set liers in wait_ Though they were assured of the success, by a particular promise, yet they did not neglect the use of means; as well knowing that the certainty of God's promises doth not ex...
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...
And Israel set liers-in-wait round about Gibeah; they no longer relied upon superior force, but made use of strategic arts in placing various details of soldiers in ambush....
Though they were assured of the success by a particular and absolute promise, yet they do not neglect the use of means; as well knowing that the certainty of God's purposes or promises doth not excuse...
Judges 20:29 Israel H3478 set H7760 (H8799) ambush H693 (H8802) around H5439 Gibeah H1390 liers - Judges 20:34; Joshua 8:4; 2 Samuel 5:23...
‘ And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.' There was now a change of tactics. Their previous tactics had not worked, probably because of the slingers. Now they decided that they must draw th...
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 humbli...
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_ (J...
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...
2 Samuel 5:23; Joshua 8:4; Judges 20:34...
Liers in wait — Though they were assured of the success, by a particular promise, yet they do not neglect the use of means; as well knowing that the certainty of God's promises doth not excuse, but ra...