士师记 20:28

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

那時，亞倫的孫子、以利亞撒的兒子非尼哈，侍立在約櫃前供職。以色列人求問耶和華，說：“我們應再出去與我們的兄弟便雅憫人交戰呢？還是休戰呢？”耶和華說：“你們應上去，因為明天我必把他們交在你們手中。”

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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

Phinehas: It is evident, from this mention of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, that these transactions must have taken place not long after the death of Joshua. Numbers 25:7-13, Joshua 22:13, Joshua 22:30-32, Joshua 24:33

stood: Deuteronomy 10:8, Deuteronomy 18:5

Shall I yet: Joshua 7:7, 1 Samuel 14:37, 1 Samuel 23:4-12, 1 Samuel 30:8, 2 Samuel 5:19-24, 2 Samuel 6:3, 2 Samuel 6:7-12, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 3:6, Jeremiah 10:23

Go up: Judges 1:2, Judges 7:9, 2 Chronicles 20:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:25 - Phinehas Exodus 28:30 - General Deuteronomy 20:2 - General Joshua 9:14 - asked not Joshua 11:6 - morrow Judges 1:1 - asked 1 Samuel 10:22 - inquired 1 Samuel 14:18 - Bring hither 1 Chronicles 6:4 - Phinehas Ezra 7:5 - Phinehas John 11:51 - being

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,.... Before the ark, ministering before the Lord, which shows that this affair was long before the times of Samson, though placed after them; or otherwise Phinehas must have been more than three hundred years of age, which is not probable r. Phinehas's standing before the ark was the posture of the priest when he inquired of the Lord for any by Urim and Thummim; the person that inquired stood before him that was inquired of, as Kimchi observes, and he that was inquired of stood before the Shechinah, or the presence of the divine Majesty, of which the ark was a symbol:

saying, shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? in which the question is put in somewhat different manner than before, not only desiring to know whether it was the will of God they should renew the battle or not, since Benjamin was their brother, but whether they should have success or not; intimating, that if the Lord would bless and help them, they were willing to go up, but if not they chose to desist; for they were fully convinced now they were wrong in depending on their numbers, or the justness of their cause; whereas success depended wholly on the will and pleasure of God, to which they desired to submit:

and the Lord said, go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into thine hand; now they are not only directed to go up to the battle, but are promised victory.

r Vid. Rainold. de lib. Apocryph. Praelect. 149, 150. p. 345, 353, 354.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar ... - A most important chronological statement, which makes it probable that these events occurred within twenty years of the death of Joshua.

To-morrow - The two former answers only bade them go up against Benjamin; now, for the first time, the promise is added, “Tomorrow,” etc. (compare Joshua 8:1).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 20:28. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar — This was the same Phinehas who is mentioned Numbers 25:7, and consequently these transactions must have taken place shortly after the death of Joshua.