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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

士师记 20:27

那時, 神的約櫃在那裡。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ark;   Enquiring of God;   Inquiring of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ark of the Covenant;   Armies of Israel, the;   Benjamin, Tribe of;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bethel;   Phinehas;   Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Urim and Thummim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - High Priest;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethel;   High Priest;   Pilgrimage;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gibeah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beth'el;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Urim and Thummim;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Inquire;   Intercession;   Tabernacle;   Urim and Thummim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
那 时 ,   神 的 约 柜 在 那 里 ; 亚 伦 的 孙 子 、 以 利 亚 撒 的 儿 子 非 尼 哈 侍 立 在 约 柜 前 。 以 色 列 人 问 耶 和 华 说 : 我 们 当 再 出 去 与 我 们 弟 兄 便 雅 悯 人 打 仗 呢 ? 还 是 罢 兵 呢 ? 耶 和 华 说 : 你 们 当 上 去 , 因 为 明 日 我 必 将 他 们 交 在 你 们 手 中 。

Contextual Overview

26 Then the Israelites went up to Bethel. There they sat down and cried to the Lord and fasted all day until evening. They also brought burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord . 27 The Israelites asked the Lord a question. (In those days the Ark of the Agreement with God was there at Bethel. 28 A priest named Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before the Ark of the Agreement.) They asked, "Shall we go to fight our relatives, the Benjaminites, again, or shall we stop fighting?" The Lord answered, "Go, because tomorrow I will hand them over to you." 29 Then the Israelites set up ambushes all around Gibeah. 30 They went to fight against the Benjaminites at Gibeah on the third day, getting into position for battle as they had done before. 31 When the Benjaminites came out to fight them, the Israelites backed up and led the Benjaminites away from the city. The Benjaminites began to kill some of the Israelites as they had done before. About thirty Israelites were killed—some in the fields and some on the roads leading to Bethel and to Gibeah. 32 The Benjaminites said, "We are winning as before!" But the Israelites said, "Let's run. Let's trick them into going farther away from their city and onto the roads." 33 All the Israelites moved from their places and got into battle positions at a place named Baal Tamar. Then the Israelites ran out from their hiding places west of Gibeah. 34 Ten thousand of the best trained soldiers from all of Israel attacked Gibeah. The battle was very hard. The Benjaminites did not know disaster was about to come to them. 35 The Lord used the Israelites to defeat the Benjaminites. On that day the Israelites killed 25,100 Benjaminites, all armed with swords.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

inquired: Judges 20:18, Judges 20:23, Numbers 27:21

the ark: Joshua 18:1, 1 Samuel 4:3, 1 Samuel 4:4, Psalms 78:60, Psalms 78:61, Jeremiah 7:12, The loss of two battles at length brought this stiff-necked people to enquire of the Lord; for all the company at this time met at Shiloh, and kept a day of fasting and prayer with great earnestness and solemnity. "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Isaiah 59:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:22 - and I will Exodus 28:30 - General Numbers 10:33 - the ark Deuteronomy 20:2 - General 1 Samuel 14:18 - Bring hither 1 Chronicles 15:29 - as the ark Jeremiah 21:2 - Inquire John 11:51 - being

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel inquired of the Lord,.... By the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, and which has the same expression in

Judges 20:18 for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days; in Shiloh, where the tabernacle was.


 
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