Judges 20:29-48
Israel.Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only by the use of proper means. Hence they used all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill. liers.34; Jos 8:4; 2Sa 5:23 30 drawn.Jos 8:14-16smite of the people, and kill, as at. Heb. smite of thepeople wounded as at, etc. the house of God. or, Beth-el. Gibeah. 19:13,14; Isa 10:29thirty.Jos 7:5 Let us flee.This was done, not only because they had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as the Benjamites left it; but it would seem, that the slingers, by being within the city and its fortifications, had great advantage over the Israelites by their slings, when they could not come among them with their swords, unless they got them in the plain country. Jos 8:15,16 rose up.Jos 8:18-22put themselves.There appear to have been three divisions of the Israelitish army: one at Baal-tamar, (which was situated, says Eusebius, near Gibeah;) a second behind the city in ambush; and a third, who skirmished with the Benjamites before Gibeah. ten thousand.29knew not.Jos 8:14; Job 21:13; Pr 4:19; 29:6; Ec 8:11,12; 9:12; Isa 3:10,11Isa 47:11; Mt 24:44; Lu 21:34; 21:34; 1Th 5:3 twenty.15,44-46; Job 20:5Though the numbers of the Israelites were immensely superior to those of Benjamin, though the stratagem was well laid and ingeniously executed, and the battle bravely fought, yet the inspired historian ascribes the victory to the hand of the Lord, as entirely as if he had smitten the Benjamites by a miracle. for the man.Jos 8:15-29 the liers in wait hasted.Jos 8:19drew themselves along. or, made a long sound with thetrumpets. Ex 19:13; Jos 6:5 Now there.From this verse to the end of the chapter, we have the details of the same operations which are mentioned, in a general way, in the preceding verses of this chapter. sign. or, time.Ge 17:21; 2Ki 4:16; *marg:and. Heb. with. flame. Heb. elevation. And when.31smite and kill. Heb. smite the wounded. a pillar.Ge 19:28; So 3:6; Joe 2:30; Re 19:3looked.Jos 8:20flame. Heb. whole consumption. were amazed.Ex 15:9,10; Isa 13:8,9; 33:14; Lu 17:27,28; 21:26; 1Th 5:32Pe 2:12; Re 6:15-17; 18:8-10was come upon them. Heb. touched them. the battle.La 1:3; Ho 9:9; 10:9 inclosed.Jos 8:20-22with ease. or, from Menuchah, etc. over against. Heb. untoover against. 44 Rimmon.Jos 15:32; 1Ch 6:77; Zec 14:10 twenty.15,35 six hundred.21:13; Ps 103:9,10; Isa 1:9; Jer 14:7; La 3:32; Hab 3:2rock of Rimmon.The rock Rimmon was doubtless a strong place; but it is uncertain where situated. It is probable however, that it was near, and took its name from, the village of Remmon, mentioned by Eusebius, fifteen miles north from Jerusalem. It appears that rocks are still resorted to in the East, as places of security; and some of them are even capable of sustaining a siege. De La Roque says, that "The Grand Seignior, wishing to seize the person of the emir (Fakr-eddin, prince of the Druses,) gave orders to the pacha to take him prisoner: he accordingly came in search of him, with a new army, in the district of Chouf, which is part of mount Lebanon, wherein is the village of Gesin, and close to it, the rock which served for a retreat to the emir. It is named in Arabic, Magara Gesin, i.e., the cavern of Gessin, by which name it is famous. The pacha pressed the emir so closely, that this unfortunate prince was obliged to shut himself up in the cleft of a great rock, with a small number of his officers. The pacha besieged him there several months; and was going to blow up the rock by a mine, when the emir capitulated." smote them.De 13:15-17; 2Ch 25:13; 28:6-9; Pr 18:19came to hand. Heb. was found. they came to. Heb. werefound.2 Samuel 17:2
weary.16:14; De 25:18I will smite.1Ki 22:31; Zec 13:7; Mt 21:38; 26:31; Joh 11:50; 18:4-8Psalms 56:6
gather.2:1-3; 59:3; 71:10; 140:2; Mt 26:3,4,57; 27:1; Ac 4:5,6; 23:12-14hide.10:8-10; 64:2-6; Da 6:4mark.37:32; 57:6; 89:51; Job 14:16; 31:4; Jer 20:10; Lu 20:20Isaiah 47:11
thou shalt not know.37:36; Ex 12:29,30; Ne 4:11; Re 3:3from whence it riseth. Heb. the morning thereof. thou shaltnot be. Ps 50:22; Jer 51:39-42; Da 5:25-30; 1Th 5:3; Re 18:9,10put it off. Heb. expiate.Mt 18:34; Lu 12:59Acts 23:12
certain.21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4bound.1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud. 1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13Acts 23:21
do not.Ex 23:2for.12-14; 9:23,24; 14:5,6; 20:19; 25:3; 2Co 11:26,32,33an oath.14; Ro 9:31 Thessalonians 5:2
know.Jer 23:20the day.Mt 24:42-44; 25:13; Mr 13:34,35; Lu 12:39,40; 2Pe 3:10; Re 3:3Re 16:15
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