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Text -- Judges 20:32 (NET)

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20:32 Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Benjaminites the tribe of Benjamin of Israel
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Zeal | Wolf | War | Vows | Strategy | JUDAH, KINGDOM OF | Gibeah | Congregation | Benjamin | BETHLEHEM | Armies | Ambush | ARCHERY | more
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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable , Guzik

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Clarke: Jdg 20:32 - -- Let us - draw them from the city - They had two reasons for this 1.    They had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter...

Let us - draw them from the city - They had two reasons for this

1.    They had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as the Benjamites had left it

2.    It would seem that the slingers, by being within the city and its fortifications, had great advantage against the Israelites by their slings, whom they could not annoy with their swords, unless they got them to the plain country.

TSK: Jdg 20:32 - -- 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 Benjamit...

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, Jos 8:16

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Gill: Jdg 20:32 - -- And the children of Benjamin said, they are smitten down before us, as at first,.... At the first battle, which gave them great spirit, and they concl...

And the children of Benjamin said, they are smitten down before us, as at first,.... At the first battle, which gave them great spirit, and they concluded they should have victory, as before:

but the children of Israel said, let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways; pretending to be afraid of them, and not able to face them, and therefore made as if they fled through fear and cowardice, which inspired the Benjaminites with fresh ardour to pursue them closely, and so were drawn from the city to the highways, as expressed in the preceding verse.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jdg 20:32 Heb “him” (collective singular).

Geneva Bible: Jdg 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 fro...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Jdg 20:1-48 - --1 The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.8 The decree of the assembly.12 The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites.18...

MHCC: Jdg 20:1-48 - --The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolves ...

Matthew Henry: Jdg 20:26-48 - -- We have here a full account of the complete victory which the Israelites obtained over the Benjamites in the third engagement: the righteous cause w...

Keil-Delitzsch: Jdg 20:29-48 - -- The Victory on the Third Day's Engagement . - Jdg 20:29. The account of this commences with the most important point, so far as their success was c...

Constable: Jdg 17:1--21:25 - --III. THE RESULTS OF ISRAEL'S APOSTASY chs. 17--21 The following two extended incidents (ch. 17-21) differ from t...

Constable: Jdg 19:1--21:25 - --B. The Immorality of Gibeah and the Benjamites chs. 19-21 Chapter 19 records an event that provoked civi...

Constable: Jdg 20:1-48 - --2. The civil war in Israel ch. 20 This chapter continues the story begun in chapter 19. The emph...

Constable: Jdg 20:29-48 - --The Israelites' final victory 20:29-48 Verses 29-36a give an overview of the battle, and...

Guzik: Jdg 20:1-48 - --Judges 20 - Israel's War With Benjamin and Gibeah A. The nation gathers to judge Gibeah. 1. (1-2) The nation gathers at the Levite's request. So a...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Judges (Book Introduction) JUDGES is the title given to the next book, from its containing the history of those non-regal rulers who governed the Hebrews from the time of Joshua...

JFB: Judges (Outline) THE ACTS OF JUDAH AND SIMEON. (Jdg 1:1-3) ADONI-BEZEK JUSTLY REQUITED. (Jdg. 1:4-21) SOME CANAANITES LEFT. (Jdg 1:22-26) AN ANGEL SENT TO REBUKE THE ...

TSK: Judges (Book Introduction) The book of Judges forms an important link in the history of the Israelites. It furnishes us with a lively description of a fluctuating and unsettled...

TSK: Judges 20 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Jdg 20:1, The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong; Jdg 20:8, The decree of the assembly; Jdg 20:12, The Benjamites, being cit...

Poole: Judges (Book Introduction) BOOK OF JUDGES THE ARGUMENT THE author of this book is not certainly known, whether it was Samuel, or Ezra, or some other prophet; nor is it mate...

Poole: Judges 20 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 20 The Israelites assemble at Mizpeh: the Levite declares his wrong, Jud 20:1-7 . Their decree, Jud 20:8-11 , They require the delinquents ...

MHCC: Judges (Book Introduction) The book of Judges is the history of Israel during the government of the Judges, who were occasional deliverers, raised up by God to rescue Israel fro...

MHCC: Judges 20 (Chapter Introduction) The tribe of Benjamin nearly extirpated.

Matthew Henry: Judges (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Judges This is called the Hebrew Shepher Shophtim , the Book of Judges, which the Syria...

Matthew Henry: Judges 20 (Chapter Introduction) Into the book of the wars of the Lord the story of this chapter must be brought, but it looks as sad and uncomfortable as any article in all that h...

Constable: Judges (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The English title, Judges, comes to us from the Latin translation (...

Constable: Judges (Outline) Outline I. The reason for Israel's apostasy 1:1-3:6 A. Hostilities between the Israelites an...

Constable: Judges Judges Bibliography Aharoni, Yohanan. Land of the Bible. Phildelphia: Westminster Press, 1962. ...

Haydock: Judges (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION. THE BOOK OF JUDGES. This Book is called Judges, because it contains the history of what passed under the government of the judge...

Gill: Judges (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES The title of this book in the Hebrew copies is Sepher Shophetim, the Book of Judges; but the Syriac and Arabic interpreters ...

Gill: Judges 20 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 20 This chapter relates, how that there was an assembly of the children of Israel at Mizpeh, upon what had happened to the c...

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