士师记 20:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列各支派打發人到便雅憫的各家去，說：“你們中間怎麼發生了這樣的惡事呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 众 支 派 打 发 人 去 ， 问 便 雅 悯 支 派 的 各 家 说 ： 你 们 中 间 怎 麽 做 了 这 样 的 恶 事 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹² The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin demanding, "What is this evil thing some of your men have done? ¹³ Hand over the wicked men in Gibeah so that we can put them to death. We must remove this evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to their fellow Israelites. ¹⁴ The Benjaminites left their own cities and met at Gibeah to fight the Israelites. ¹⁵ In only one day the Benjaminites got 26,000 soldiers together who were trained with swords. They also had 700 chosen men from Gibeah. ¹⁶ Seven hundred of these trained soldiers were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss! ¹⁷ The Israelites, except for the Benjaminites, gathered 400,000 soldiers with swords.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent men: Deuteronomy 13:14, Deuteronomy 20:10, Joshua 22:13-16, Matthew 18:15-18, Romans 12:18

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
Abram and Nahor both married. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 12:13
Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."

1 Thessalonians 5:22
and stay away from everything that is evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribes of Benjamin,.... Meaning the families of Benjamin; for as sometimes a tribe is called a family, Joshua 7:17 so a family is called a tribe; and there were ten families in the tribe of Benjamin, according to the number of his sons, the fathers of these families. Genesis 46:21, which being numerous and powerful, and consisting of men of courage, and expert in war, thought themselves a match for the ten tribes of Israel now assembled, who sent one out of each tribe, very probably ten in all, upon this errand; for they judged it most advisable, before they went to war with them, to try to get the offenders, delivered up to justice, and so prevent the shedding of blood of either side; and the rather, as there were none of the tribe of Benjamin at this assembly, and which indeed might give them reason to suspect they meant not to join with them in an amicable manner in this affair: however, they were willing to try peaceable methods first:

saying, what wickedness is this that is done among you? not that they were sent to inquire what the crime was that was committed, that was fully known; but by putting the question in this manner, their design was to aggravate it, and to put the men of Benjamin on considering how great it was, what an enormous sin it was that was committed, and that among them; and therefore it lay upon them, either to punish the perpetrators of it themselves or deliver them up to them to be punished according to the common law of Israel.