Hakim-hakim 20:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Juga bani Benyamin maju menyerang dari Gibea dan menggugurkan ke bumi dua puluh dua ribu orang dari antara orang Israel pada hari itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Juga bani Benyamin maju menyerang dari Gibea dan menggugurkan ke bumi dua puluh dua ribu orang dari antara orang Israel pada hari itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu keluarlah bani Benyamin dari dalam Gibea, diparangnya pada hari itu akan dua puluh ribu orang dari pada orang Israel, yang rebah ke bumi.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ And the children of Israel arose, and wet vp to the house of God, and asked of God, saying: Whiche of vs shall go vp first to the battel against the children of Beniamin? And the Lorde sayd: Iuda shall begin. ¹⁹ And the children of Israel stoode vp early, and camped against Gibea. ²⁰ And the men of Israel went out to battell against Beniamin, and the men of Israel put the selues in aray to fight against them, beside Gibea. ²¹ And the children of Beniamin came out of Gibea, and destroyed downe to the ground of the Israelites that day twentie and two thousand men. ²² And the people the men of Israel plucked vp their heartes, and set their battel againe in aray, in the same place where they dyd the first day. ²³ (And the children of Israel went vp, and wept before the Lorde vnto euen, and asked of the Lord, saying: Shal we go agayne to battell against the children of Beniamin our brethre? And the Lord sayde: Go vp against them.) ²⁴ And the children of Israel came neare against the children of Beniamin the seconde day. ²⁵ And the children of Beniamin went against them out of Gibea the seconde day, and destroyed to the earth of the childre of Israel once againe eyghteene thousand men that drewe swordes euerie man of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the children: Genesis 49:27, Hosea 10:9

destroyed: Deuteronomy 23:9, 2 Chronicles 28:10, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 73:18, Psalms 73:19, Psalms 77:19, Ecclesiastes 9:1-3, Jeremiah 12:1

Reciprocal: Judges 20:25 - destroyed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,.... Which was their place of rendezvous, and which they came to defend; and in and about which they had stationed their whole army of 26,000 men:

and destroyed down to the ground: killed dead upon the spot:

of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men; wanting but 4000 of their whole number, excepting the men of Gibeah, which was such a rebuff the Israelites did not expect, being engaged in so just a cause, and having such a numerous army. Several Jewish, writers q think this was on account of their idolatry, that though they were very zealous to revenge corporeal adultery in the case of the Levite's concubine, and to remove such iniquity from Israel; yet were not zealous to revenge and put away spiritual adultery or idolatry in the case of the Danites, who had set up the image of Micah, and so had spread idolatry not only in their own tribe, but throughout Israel; and therefore God took this opportunity to avenge his own quarrel, and rebuke them for their sin; and now did Benjamin raven as a wolf, according to Jacob's prophecy, Genesis 49:27.

q T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 103. 2. Pirke Eliezer, c. 28. Jarchi & Kimchi in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gibeah, being on a hill, was difficult of access to an attacking army, and gave great advantage to the defenders, who fought from higher ground, and probably defended a narrow pass, while their companions on the walls could gall the assailants with their slingstones.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 20:21. Destroyed down to the ground - twenty-two thousand men. — That is, so many were left dead on the field of battle.