Jud 20:1
20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
     congregation was gathered together as {a} one man, from Dan
     even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the {b}
     LORD in Mizpeh.

     (a) That is, all with one consent.
     (b) To ask counsel.

Jud 20:2
20:2 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes
     of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the
     people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that {c} drew
     sword.

     (c) Meaning, men able to handle their weapons.

Jud 20:3
20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of
     Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then {d} said the children
     of Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?

     (d) To the Levite.

Jud 20:6
20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent
     {e} her throughout all the country of the inheritance of
     Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in
     Israel.

     (e) That is, her pieces, to every tribe a piece,
         @Jud 19:29.

Jud 20:8
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 {f} house.

     (f) Before we have avenged this wickedness.

Jud 20:10
20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the
      tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a
      thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch {g} victual for the
      people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of
      Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have
      wrought in Israel.

      (g) Only these would be charged to provide food for the
          rest.

Jud 20:12
20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the {h}
      tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that
      is done among you?

      (h) That is, every family of the tribe.

Jud 20:13
20:13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of
      Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to
      death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of
      Benjamin {i} would not hearken to the voice of their
      brethren the children of Israel:

      (i) Because they would not allow the wicked to be
          punished, they declared themselves in agreement with
          their evil, and therefore all were justly punished.

Jud 20:18
20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up {k} to the
      house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of
      us shall go up first to the battle against the children of
      Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.

      (k) That is, to the ark, which was in Shiloh some think in
          Mizpeh, as in @Jud 20:1.

Jud 20:21
20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
      destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day
      {l} twenty and two thousand men.

      (l) This God permitted because by this means he would
          punish their sins, by the strength of the Israelites.

Jud 20:27
20:27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the
      ark of the covenant of God [was] {m} there in those days,

      (m) That is, in Shiloh.

Jud 20:28
20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, {n}
      stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again
      go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my
      brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for
      to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

      (n) Or, served in the priest's office in those days: for
          the Jews write that he lived three hundred years.

Jud 20:31
20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people,
      [and] were {o} drawn away from the city; and they began to
      smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the
      highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and
      the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of
      Israel.

      (o) By the policy of the children of Israel.

Jud 20:32
20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down
      before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel
      said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the
      {p} highways.

      (p) Meaning, crossways or paths to various places.

Jud 20:34
20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out
      of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not
      that {q} evil [was] near them.

      (q) They did not know that God's judgment was at hand to
          destroy them.

Jud 20:36
20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten:
      for the men of Israel {r} gave place to the Benjamites,
      because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had
      set beside Gibeah.

      (r) Retired to draw them after.

Jud 20:39
20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin
      began to {s} smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about
      thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten
      down before us, as [in] the first battle.

      (s) For they had grown bold because of the two former
          victories.

Jud 20:41
20:41 And when the men of Israel turned {t} again, the men of
      Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon
      them.

      (t) And withstood their enemies.

Jud 20:42
20:42 Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of
      Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle
      overtook them; and them which [came] out of the cities
      they destroyed {u} in the midst of them.

      (u) For they were surrounded from every side.

Jud 20:45
20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the
      rock of Rimmon: and they {x} gleaned of them in the
      highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them
      unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

      {x} They slew them one by one, as they were scattered
          abroad.

Jud 20:46
20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were {y}
      twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all
      these [were] men of valour.

      (y) Besides eleven hundred that had been slain in the
          previous battles.

Jud 20:48
20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of
      Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as
      well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that
      came to hand: also they set on fire all the {z} cities
      that they came to.

      (z) If they belonged to the Benjamites.



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