Judges 20:44
What meaning of the judges 20:44 in the Bible?
What does Judges 20:44 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour."
What does Judges 20:44 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour."
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...
_eighteen thousand men_ Contrast the number in Judges 20:35 from B. The first half of the _v._may be assigned to A, and connects with Judges 20:47; the second half has found its way here from Judges 2...
_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 LORD SMOTE BENJAMIN BEFORE ISRAEL: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DESTROYED OF THE BENJAMITES THAT DAY TWENTY AND FIVE THOUSAND AND AN HUNDRED MEN: ALL THESE DREW THE SWORD._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON...
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...
וַֽ יִּפְּלוּ֙ מִ בִּנְיָמִ֔ן שְׁמֹנָֽה ־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף אִ֑ישׁ אֶת ־כָּל ־אֵ֖לֶּה אַנְשֵׁי ־חָֽיִל׃...
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 THERE FELL OF BENJAMIN EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEN,.... Just the number they had slain of Israel in the second battle. This is the number of them that were slain when Israel turned upon them, and by tha...
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valour. Ver. 44. _And there fell of Benjamin._] To wit, In the battle....
_There fell eighteen thousand_ Namely, in the field of battle. _They gleaned of them five thousand_ A metaphor from those who gather grapes or corn so cleanly and fully that they leave no relics for t...
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 DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...
THERE FELL, to wit, in the field, or battle....
Judges 20:44 eighteen H8083 H6240 thousand H505 men H376 Benjamin H1144 fell H5307 (H8799) men H582 valor H2428...
‘ And there fell of Benjamin eighteen eleph men. All these were men of valour.' Eighteen military units were destroyed in the initial battle and pursuit, the same number as they themselves had destro...
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...
There fell — Namely, in the field, of battle....