Judg 20:31-33 | TSK | e4.org | drawn 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. ; thirty

‏ Judges 20:31-33

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. Judg 19:13-14; Isa 10:29

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. Josh 8:15-16

rose up Josh 8:18-22

put themselves There appear to have been three divisions of the Israelitish army. One at Baal-tamar (which was situated, says Eusebius, near Gibeah); a second behind the city in ambush; and a third, who skirmished with the Benjamites before Gibeah.