Hakim-hakim 20:32

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka kata bani Benyamin: "Orang-orang itu telah terpukul kalah oleh kita seperti semula." Tetapi orang-orang Israel telah bermupakat lebih dahulu: "Marilah kita lari dan memancing mereka dari kota ke jalan-jalan raya."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka kata bani Benyamin: "Orang-orang itu telah terpukul kalah oleh kita seperti semula." Tetapi orang-orang Israel telah bermupakat lebih dahulu: "Marilah kita lari dan memancing mereka dari kota ke jalan-jalan raya."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu kata bani Benyamin: Bahwa mereka itu sudah alah di hadapan kita seperti dahulu juga; tetapi kata bani Israel: Marilah kita lari dan menarik-narik akan dia dari pada negeri kepada jalan raya.

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Then al the children of Israel, and all the people, went vp and came vnto the house of God, and wept, and sate there before the Lord, and fasted the same day vnto euen, and offered burnt offerynges and peace offerynges before the Lorde. ²⁷ And the children of Israel asked the Lord: (for there was the arke of the appoyntment of God, in those dayes: ²⁸ And Phinehes the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron stoode before it at that time) saying: Shal I get me vp to go out any more to battell against the children of Beniamin my brethren, or shal I ceasse? The Lorde sayde: Go vp, for to morow I wil deliuer them into your handes. ²⁹ And Israel set lyers awayte round about Gibea. ³⁰ And the children of Israel went vp against the childre of Beniamin the third time, & put them selues in aray against Gibea, as twyse before. ³¹ And the children of Beniamin came out against the people, & were drawen away from the citie, & they began to smite of ye people, dead as twise before, by two hye wayes in the fielde (of whiche one goeth vp to the house of god, & the other to Gibea) vpon a thirtie men of Israel. ³² (And the children of Beniamin sayde: They are fallen before vs, as at the first. But the children of Israel sayd: Let vs flee, and plucke them away from the citie, vnto the hye wayes.) ³³ And all the men of Israel rose vp out of their place, & put them selues in aray at Baal Thamar: And lykewyse the liers in wayte of Israel came foorth out of their places, euen out of the medowes that were about Gibea, ³⁴ And came against Gibea ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and there was a sore battel: But they wist not that euyll was neare them. ³⁵ And the Lord plagued Beniamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Beniamites the same day twentie and fyue thousand and an hundred men, that drue swordes euerie one of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let us flee: This was done, not only because they had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as the Benjamites left it; but it would seem, that the slingers, by being within the city and its fortifications, had great advantage over the Israelites by their slings, when they could not come among them with their swords, unless they got them in the plain country. Joshua 8:15, Joshua 8:16

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:6 - They flee 2 Samuel 17:9 - some

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Benjamin said, they are smitten down before us, as at first,.... At the first battle, which gave them great spirit, and they concluded they should have victory, as before:

but the children of Israel said, let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways; pretending to be afraid of them, and not able to face them, and therefore made as if they fled through fear and cowardice, which inspired the Benjaminites with fresh ardour to pursue them closely, and so were drawn from the city to the highways, as expressed in the preceding verse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 20:32. Let us - draw them from the city — They had two reasons for this:

1. They had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as the Benjamites had left it.

2. It would seem that the slingers, by being within the city and its fortifications, had great advantage against the Israelites by their slings, whom they could not annoy with their swords, unless they got them to the plain country.