Judges 20:9
What meaning of the judges 20:9 in the Bible?
What does Judges 20:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;"
What does Judges 20:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;"
BY LOT - To determine who should go up first Judges 20:18. The shape of the ground probably made it impossible for the whole force to operate at once; and the question of spoil would have something to...
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...
we will go up _against it by lot_ An accidental omission from the text makes it necessary to supply a verb; the LXX reads _we will go up_. Judging from Judges 20:18 and Judges 1:1, the object of casti...
TO GIBEAH; WE WILL GO UP BY LOT AGAINST IT— Houbigant renders this more properly, _we will draw lots against Gibea._ REFLECTIONS.—Fired with holy zeal against such a crying enormity, the whole congre...
_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...
_BUT NOW THIS SHALL BE THE THING WHICH WE WILL DO TO GIBEAH; WE WILL GO UP BY LOT AGAINST IT;_ 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...
WE WILL GO UP BY LOT AGAINST IT. — The English Version follows the LXX. and other versions in supplying “we will go up.” This is like the decision of the Amphictyonic counsel against the guilty city o...
וְ עַתָּ֕ה זֶ֣ה הַ דָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשֶׂ֖ה לַ † גִּבְעָ֑ה עָלֶ֖יהָ בְּ גֹורָֽל׃...
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 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...
_In common. Hebrew, "by lot." (Calmet) --- They chose one man out of ten to procure provisions, selecting 40,000 for that purpose, or the 10th part of the forces. (Haydock)_...
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...
BUT NOW THIS SHALL BE THE THING WHICH WE WILL DO TO GIBEAH,.... Where the fact was done; what follows was proposed by some, and unanimously agreed to by all: WE WILL GO UP BY LOT AGAINST IT; cast lot...
But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it; Ver. 9. _We will go up by lot against it._] They do not shake off the plaintiff, or send him to Gibeah...
_We will go up by lot against it_ They probably cast lots who should go, and who should stay at home to provide the necessary supplies. _According to all the folly that they have wrought_ That we may...
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...
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.The...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 20:9 thing H1697 do H6213 (H8799) Gibeah H1390 lot H1486 by lot against it - Joshua 14:2; 1 Samuel 14:41-42; 1 Chronicles 24:5; Nehemiah 11:1; Proverbs 16:33; Jonah 1:7;...
“But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah. We will go up against it by lot. And we will take ten men of a hundred, throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a t...
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 20:1 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...
1 Chronicles 24:5; 1 Samuel 14:41; 1 Samuel 14:42; Acts 1:26; Jonah 1:7; Joshua 14:2; Nehemiah 11:1; Proverbs 16:33...