Geneva Study Bible - Judges 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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
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. read more
Geneva Study Bible - Judges 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. read more