The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 20:30 And the children of Israel went up…
Jdg 20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Ver. 30. And the children of Israel went up.] Though they had a promise, yet they neglected not to use the best means. God, they knew, was to be trusted, but not tempted; and this is the very difference between true faith and vain presumption.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The children of Israel, i.e. a considerable part of…
The children of Israel, i.e. a considerable part of them, who were ordered to give the first onset, and then to counterfeit flight, to draw the Benjamites forth of their strong hold. See Jdg 20:32.
On the third day, to wit, after the second battle; for the first day after it they spent in perplexing thoughts, and going up to the house of the Lord; the second, in fasting and prayer there; and this third, in the fight. Or this is so called with respect unto the two several foregoing days of battle, and so this was the third day of battle.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the children of Benjamin went out against the…
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:
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and they began to smite the people, and kill as at other times; at the other two battles:
in the highways; where it seems two ways met:
of which one goeth up to the house of God; to Bethel, as the Targum (t); or rather to Shiloh, where the house or tabernacle of God was, and was two miles from Gibeah, as Bunting (u) says:
and the other to Gibeah in the field; so called, to distinguish it from the other Gibeah situated on an hill:
about thirty men of Israel; which were killed in this running fight; and it seems as if one part of the army of Israel took one road, and the other the other road, and so divided the army of the Benjaminites that pursued after them.
(t) So the Septuagint, and Noldius, p. 69. No. 345. (u) Travels, &c. p. 121.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The children of Israel - That is, a considerable…
The children of Israel - That is, a considerable part of them, who were ordered to give the first onset, and then to counterfeit flight, to draw the Benjamites forth from their strong-hold. See ver. 32.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 30. on the third day] The account of the…
30. on the third day] The account of the battle becomes exceedingly confused. It seems to be rounded off at Jdg_20:35 in the usual way, with a statement of the result and numbers slain; but in Jdg_20:36 ff. we find the battle still in progress, and we go through the various incidents again. This repetition is due partly to the combination of the narratives A and B, and partly, it would seem, to the insertion of editorial expansions or glosses. In the main Jdg_20:30-36 a come from the later source B; and in the main 36b–47 may be assigned to the earlier source A. Details which appear to lie outside these two versions, or merely repeat phrases from them, may be regarded, provisionally, as later additions; see on Jdg_20:31; Jdg_20:37 b, Jdg_20:43, Jdg_20:44 b – Jdg_20:46.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain As at other times, or, this time as the…
As at other times, or, this time as the other times. (see the same phrase, ver. 31,Jud_1:16:20 Num_24:20)
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