the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
AbaGwebi 20:8
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as one man: Judges 20:1, Judges 20:11
We will not: Judges 21:1, Judges 21:5, Proverbs 21:3, Ecclesiastes 9:10
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 3:11 - that we may Nehemiah 8:1 - as one man
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And all the people arose as one man,.... Either the heads of the people assembled in council, all agreed unanimously in one vote or resolution, or all the 400,000 men were of the same mind, when the case was reported to them:
saying, we will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house; that is, they would not return home, to take one nights rest in their houses, or attend to the business of their callings or to any affair of life, however urgent, till satisfaction was made for the evil committed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They bound themselves not to break up and disperse until they had punished the wickedness of Gibeah.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 20:8. We will not any of us go to his tent — We will have satisfaction for this wickedness before we return home.