士師記 20:15-17 JCB

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 20:17

The men of Israel, to wit, such as were here present, Judges 20:2, for otherwise it is most probable they had a far greater number of men, being 600,000 before their entrance into Canaan, Numbers 1:2. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 20:1-48

THE CRY FOR VENGEANCE(Judges 20:1-48.)HOMILETICS1. This cry was universal (Judges 20:1).“From Dan to Beershebah, with Gilead.” There was not a dissentient voice.2. They were in earnest (Judges 20:2). Such numbers.3. Their desire for accurate information (Judges 20:3-7).4. The vengeance must be summary (Judges 20:8 etc.).5. They were united in their purpose (Judges 20:11).6. A whole tribe takes part with the wicked city (Judges 20:13-14).7. The men of zeal act in a spirit of presumption and self... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 20:1-48

Chapter 20Now 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 evil that was done by the Benjamites, by those from the tribe of Benjamin, the city of Gibeah. He told them the horrible evil that had befallen him while he was there. And the people of Israel were incensed against the Ephraimites, I mean against the Benjamites. And so they decided to go... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 20:1-48

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 necessary war, but the hand was not clean that handled the sword. Judges 20:13 . Deliver us the children of Belial that we may put them to death. By the refusal of this just demand, every Benjamite made the crime his own, and paid the forfeiture of his life. Judges 20:16 . Seven hundred... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 20:1-48

Judges 20:1-48The men of Israel turned again upon the children of BenJamin.From justice to wild revengeIt may be asked how, while polygamy was practised among the Israelites, the sin of Gibeah could rouse such indignation and awaken the signal vengeance of the united tribes. The answer is to be found partly in the singular and dreadful device which the indignant husband used in making the deed known. Womanhood must have been stirred to the fiercest indignation, and manhood was bound to follow.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 20:15

Jdg 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. Ver. 15. Twenty and six thousand men that drew sword. ] But were all shortly after devoured by the sword, the whole land becoming like a general slaughter house, or a place of infernal torture. Had they not been so numerous, they had not, likely, been so venturous. "The pride of thy... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 20:16

Jdg 20:16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss. Ver. 16. Lefthanded; every one could sling stones, &c. ] See Judges 3:15 . David had an excellency in slinging: so had Domitian and Commodus the Emperors. The Indians are much commended for their faculty herein by Philostratus and Plutarch. The Boeotians and the Baleares in Spain were bred up to it of children, their mothers allowing them no... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 20:17

Jdg 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war. Ver. 17. Four hundred thousand men. ] Besides those that supplied the camp when they came out of Egypt, they were six hundred thousand: but then Benjamin also was reckoned with them: and there were not a few cut off in the late conquest of Canaan, &c. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 20:15

twenty: Judges 20:25, Judges 20:35, Judges 20:46, Judges 20:47, Numbers 26:41 Reciprocal: Judges 8:10 - fell an hundred Judges 20:22 - encouraged read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 20:16

lefthanded: Itter yad yemeeno, "obstructed in his right hand;" so the Chaldee Targum, gemid beedaih deyammeena, contracted or impeded in his right hand." Lev. Clerc observes, that the 700 men left-handed seem therefore to have been made slingers, because they could not use the right hand, which is employed in managing heavier arms; and they could discharge the stones from the sling in a direction against which their opponents were not upon their guard, and thus do the greater execution. Judges... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 20:17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 20:1-48

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 20:1-48

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 20:1-48

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 20:1-48

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 20:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 20:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 20:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 20:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 20:16

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