They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
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They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
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Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying: 'Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,…
Jdg 21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
Ver. 20. Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin.] Who should first have examined the commands of their superiors, before they had obeyed them. Obediemus Artridis honesta mandantibus, saith the tragedian {a}
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{a} Eurip., in Iphig.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,.... The two…
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,.... The two hundred men of the tribe that wanted wives; they ordered them as follows, and which they spake with authority, being the elders of the congregation, Jdg 21:16.
saying, go and lie in wait in the vineyards; which might belong to Shiloh, or it may be to Lebonah, which perhaps is the same with Bethlaban, famous for its wine with the Misnic writers; who say (g) the second places for wine are Bethrimah and Bethlaban; and I suspect that Bethrimah is the same with Bethrimmon, near which was the rock Rimmon these men were in; now this being the time of year when the vintage was just over, the vines were full of branches and leaves, under which the men might the better hide themselves; and the grapes being gathered, there were no men in the vineyards, and so might lie in wait safely, and under cover.
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(g) Misn. Menachot, c. 8. sect. 6.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) They commanded.—Rather, they gave notice. This is the…
(20) They commanded.—Rather, they gave notice. This is the keri or marginal reading of the Hebrew; the kethib, or written text, has the verb in the singular, in which case we must take it impersonally, “It was bidden,” and suppose that some leading personage—probably Phinehas, the impress of whose character and reminiscences is observable throughout—is the speaker.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 each one of you should grab a wife ...…
each one of you should grab a wife ... go back to the land of Benjamin
It it understood that the Benjamites would take these women back to their own land with them. The full meaning of this statement can be made explicit. AT: "each one of you should seize one of the girls of Shiloh, and then take her back with you to the land of Benjamin to become your wife" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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