Richter 20:31

Elberfelder Bibel

Und die Kinder Benjamin zogen heraus, dem Volke entgegen, wurden von der Stadt abgerissen und fingen an, etliche von dem Volke zu erschlagen, wie die anderen Male, bei dreißig Mann unter Israel, auf den Landstraßen, deren eine nach Bethel hinaufsteigt und die andere durch das Gefilde nach Gibea führt.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Da zogen die Kinder Benjamin heraus, dem Volke entgegen, und nachdem sie von der Stadt abgeschnitten worden, fingen sie an, etliche vom Volk zu erschlagen und zu töten, etwa dreißig Mann von Israel, wie zweimal zuvor, auf den Landstraßen, deren eine nach Bethel, die andere auf dem Felde nach Gibea führt.

Lutherbible (1912)
Da fuhren die Kinder Benjamin heraus, dem Volk entgegen, und wurden losgerissen von der Stadt und fingen an zu schlagen und zu verwunden etliche vom Volk, wie zuvor zweimal, im Felde auf zwei Straßen, deren eine gen Beth-El, die andere gen Gibea geht, bei dreißig Mann in Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

drawn: Joshua 8:14-16

smite of the people, and kill, as at: Heb. smite of the people wounded as at, etc

the house of God: or, Beth-el, Gibeah. Judges 19:13, Judges 19:14, Isaiah 10:29

thirty: Joshua 7:5

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:5 - that we will Joshua 8:16 - drawn away Judges 20:39 - And when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people,.... Sallied out of Gibeah upon them, where they had put themselves in array against them:

and were drawn away from the city; the Israelites retreating, and dissembling a flight, which drew the Benjaminites to pursue after them, by which means they were drawn off to a greater distance from the city of Gibeah:

and they began to smite the people, and kill as at other times; at the other two battles;

in the highways; where it seems two ways met:

of which one goeth up to the house of God; to Bethel, as the Targum t; or rather to Shiloh, where the house or tabernacle of God was, and was two miles from Gibeah, as Bunting u says:

and the other to Gibeah in the field; so called, to distinguish it from the other Gibeah situated on an hill:

about thirty men of Israel; which were killed in this running fight; and it seems as if one part of the army of Israel took one road, and the other the other road, and so divided the army of the Benjaminites that pursued after them.

t So the Septuagint, and Noldius, p. 69. No. 345. u Travels, &c. p. 121.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To the house of God - “To Bethel,” as in the margin. On “Gibeah in the field,” see Joshua 18:24 note.