士师记 20:43

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列人包圍了便雅憫人，追趕他們，在他們歇息之地，直到基比亞對面日出之處，踐踏他們。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 围 绕 便 雅 悯 人 ， 追 赶 他 们 ， 在 他 们 歇 脚 之 处 、 对 着 日 出 之 地 的 基 比 亚 践 踏 他 们 。

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

enclosed: Joshua 8:20-22

with ease: or, from Menuchah, etc

over against: Heb. unto over against

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 10:9 - General 2 Kings 7:17 - the people trode upon him 1 Chronicles 19:10 - set against

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus they enclosed the Benjaminites round about,.... Surrounded them on all sides, the army of Israel being posted in different places, and people coming out of all the cities to their assistance. Josephus a says, they were forced into, and cooped up, in a hollow place in a valley, so that they could not escape:

and chased them; or "caused to pursue" b; calling after them a pursuit, crying to one another as they went along, saying, pursue them, pursue them; so Jarchi and Kimchi; which cry, as it inspired the pursuers with zeal, so they pursued with terror:

and trod them down with ease; they making no resistance, being quite dispirited; the Targrim is,

"from the house of their rest,''

where they took up their rest, and designed to rest that night, but could not, being so closely pursued, and diligently sought after. Some take "menuchah", rendered "ease", to be the name of a place, from or unto which they were pursued and trodden down, see 1 Chronicles 2:52 and so the Septuagint seems to take it for the name of a place, rendering it, "from Noua":

over against Gibeah, towards the sunrising; that is, as Jarchi interprets it, to the east of Gibeah, there was this overthrow and slaughter made.

a Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 10.) b הרדיפהו "persequi fecerunt eum", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; "vel eos", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The language and construction of this verse is poetical; it seems to be an extract from a song, and to describe, in the language of poetry, the same event which the preceding verse described in that of prose.

With ease - Or “rest” Numbers 10:33; Psalms 95:11. The expression is very obscure. The margin takes it as the name of a place.