All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
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All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
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And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
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And all the people arose as one man, saying: 'We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn unto his house.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Judges 20:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
- Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- Judges 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
- Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
- Judges 21:5 The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Before we have revenged this wickedness.
Before we have revenged this wickedness.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 20:8 And all the people arose as one…
Jdg 20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his house.
Ver. 8. And all the people arose as one man, saying.] For the punishment of foul offences serio et sedulo ineumbendnm est, men must do their utmost; and not as Popish councils, which make a show only of reformation. Luther truly and trimly compared them to a company of foxes, which sweeping a foul room with their tails, raise a great dust, but remove none.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain We will not any of us go to his…
We will not any of us go to his tent, i.e. his habitation, to wit, until we have revenged this injury.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the people arose as one man,.... Either…
And all the people arose as one man,.... Either the heads of the people assembled in council, all agreed unanimously in one vote or resolution, or all the 400,000 men were of the same mind, when the case was reported to them:
saying, we will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house; that is, they would not return home, to take one nights rest in their houses, or attend to the business of their callings or to any affair of life, however urgent, till satisfaction was made for the evil committed.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain His tent - That is, his habitation, until we…
His tent - That is, his habitation, until we have revenged this injury.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. We will not any of us go…
Verse 8. We will not any of us go to his tent] We will have satisfaction for this wickedness before we return home.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They bound themselves not to break up and disperse…
They bound themselves not to break up and disperse until they had punished the wickedness of Gibeah.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain THEIR DECREE. (Jdg 20:8-17)
THEIR DECREE. (Jdg 20:8-17)
all the people arose as one man--The extraordinary unanimity that prevailed shows, that notwithstanding great disorders had broken out in many parts, the people were sound at the core; and remembering their national covenant with God, they now felt the necessity of wiping out so foul a stain on their character as a people. It was resolved that the inhabitants of Gibeah should be subjected to condign punishment. But the resolutions were conditional. For as the common law of nature and nations requires that an inquiry should be made and satisfaction demanded, before committing an act of hostility or vengeance, messengers were despatched through the whole territory of Benjamin, demanding the immediate surrender or execution of the delinquents. The request was just and reasonable; and by refusing it the Benjamites virtually made themselves a party in the quarrel. It must not be supposed that the people of this tribe were insensible or indifferent to the atrocious character of the crime that had been committed on their soil. But their patriotism or their pride was offended by the hostile demonstration of the other tribes. The passions were inflamed on both sides; but certainly the Benjamites incurred an awful responsibility by the attitude of resistance they assumed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. tent] As the parallelism shews, equivalent to house,…
8. tent] As the parallelism shews, equivalent to house, cf. Jdg_19:9 mg., 1Ki_8:66, Psa_132:3 tent of my house; a survival from the time when the Israelites actually lived in tents. The resolution is expressed in poetical parallelism, cf. 1Ki_12:16, 2Sa_20:1; we are to supply in thought ‘until the crime be avenged.’ The same resolution, differently expressed, follows in Jdg_20:9 ff.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Arose as one man.—The same words are rendered…
(8) Arose as one man.—The same words are rendered “with one consent” in 1Sa_11:7.
To his tent . . . . into his house.—Possibly many of the Trans-jordanic Israelites, who were chiefly graziers, were obliged by the necessities of nomadic life to live in tents, not in villages or cities.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The people with the emphatic meaning of the whole…
The people with the emphatic meaning of the whole people of Israel, the assembly of the people of God, as in ver. 2. As one man.
There was but one resolve, and one sentiment, and one expression of opinion, in that vast multitude. Not one would go home till due punishment had been inflicted upon Gibeah of Benjamin. To his tent, i.e. home, as in Jud_1:19:9.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 as one
as one
This simile speaks of the group as acting as a single person. They all acted together in exactly the same way. AT: "as if they were a single man" (See: Simile)
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None of us will go to his tent ... none of us will return to his house
These two clauses say basically the same thing twice for emphasis. They can be combined. The words "none ... go" and "none ... return" emphasizes how the people will continue to stay there. They can be stated in positive form. AT: "We will all stay here" (See: Parallelism and Litotes)
But now
These words introduce the main portion of what the people say after the initial exclamation.
as the lot directs
This involved tossing or rolling small marked stones to determine what God wants.
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Gibeah
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