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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 20:18-25

We have here the defeat of the men of Israel in their first and second battle with the Benjamites. I. Before their first engagement they asked counsel of God concerning the order of their battle and were directed, and yet they were sorely beaten. They did not think it was proper to ask of God whether they should go up at all against Benjamin (the case was plain enough, the men of Gibeah must be punished for their wickedness, and Israel must inflict the punishment or it will not be done), but... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 20:26-48

We have here a full account of the complete victory which the Israelites obtained over the Benjamites in the third engagement: the righteous cause was victorious at last, when the managers of it amended what had been amiss; for, when a good cause suffers, it is for want of good management. Observe then how the victory was obtained, and how it was pursued. I. How the victory was obtained. Two things they had trusted too much to in the former engagements?the goodness of their cause and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:24

And the children of Israel came near ,.... To the city of Gibeah, drew nigh to battle: against the children of Benjamin the second day ; for the two battles were fought two days successively. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:25

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day ,.... Flushed with the victory they had obtained the day before: and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men, all these drew the sword , were armed men; this, with the 22,000 slain the day preceding, made 40,000; the same number singled out from among them by lot to provide food for them, and is thought by some to be the case Deborah refers to, Judges 5:8 and is what is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:26

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 tabernacle of God in Shiloh: and wept and sat there before the Lord ; not only wept, but continued weeping, and that not merely for their defeat, but for their sins, since it follows: and fasted that day until even ; afflicted their bodies with fasting, which was a token of the humiliation... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:27

And the children of Israel inquired of the Lord ,.... By the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, and which has the same expression in Judges 20:18 for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days; in Shiloh, where the tabernacle was. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:28

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days ,.... Before the ark, ministering before the Lord, which shows that this affair was long before the times of Samson, though placed after them; or otherwise Phinehas must have been more than three hundred years of age, which is not probable F18 Vid. Rainold. de lib. Apocryph. Praelect. 149,150. p. 345,353,354. . Phinehas's standing before the ark was the posture of the priest when he inquired of the Lord... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:29

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 recourse to art and stratagem, and set an ambush in divers places, much in like manner as Israel did for the men of Ai; the two cases being pretty much similar; this ambush was set in the night, as Josephus says F19 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2.) sect. 11. , read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:30

And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day ,.... Not the day following the second battle, since it would take more time to go to Shiloh, and fast and offer sacrifices there, but on the third day from the second battle: and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times ; as they had done on the first and second days of battle. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:31

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people ,.... Sallied out of Gibeah upon them, where they had put themselves in array against them: and were drawn away from the city ; the Israelites retreating, and dissembling a flight, which drew the Benjaminites to pursue after them, by which means they were drawn off to a greater distance from the city of Gibeah: and they began to smite the people, and kill as at other times ; at the other two battles: in the highways ; where... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 20:18-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 20:26-48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 20:31

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