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Clementine Latin Vulgate
Judices 20:21
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Egressique filii Benjamin de Gabaa, occiderunt de filiis Israël die illo viginti duo millia virorum.
Egressique filii Beniamin de Gabaa occiderunt de filiis Israel die illo viginti duo milia viros.
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.
