Judges 20:19
in Judges 20The next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.
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ASV
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
KJV
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
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This verse in Judges 20
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning
on Judges 20:19-21
Israel goes up with an answer from God and loses twenty and two thousand men in a day. The text gives no reason for the defeat. Henry and Gill read the four hundred thousand as trusting their own numbers, and Keil notes that the question asked at verse 18 was which tribe should lead rather than whether to fight at all. The chapter states the outcome and leaves the cause where it found it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
And when at first the people of Israel were defeated, yet unmoved by fear at the reverses of the war, they disregarded the sorrow the avenging of chastity cost them. They rushed into the battle ready to wash out with their own blood the stains of the crime that had been committed.
In the first and second encounters, when many were harmed by a few, the Israelites considered yielding, since the battles were so unfavorable. There were four hundred thousand men warring against twenty-five thousand of the tribe of Benjamin, and they strove with seven hundred Gabanites [Gibeonites] experienced in war. When two battles were unfavorable, Israel with eager spirit did not lose hope of victory nor of vengeance for the hope they had fostered.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning,.... After they had had counsel at Shiloh, and which perhaps was by a deputation sent thither: and encamped against Gibeah: formed a camp near Gibeah of 360,000 men, enough to have stormed and taken that city at once, one would think.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
But they ought to have done it at the commencement of their proceedings. Instead of this, all their plans were formed, and never doubting, it would seem, that the war was just and inevitable, the only subject of their inquiry related to the precedency of the tribes--a point which it is likely was discussed in the assembly.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּק֥וּמוּ | vaiyakumu | and they arose | H6965 → | 628 times |
| בְנֵֽי־ | venei- | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| בַּבֹּ֑קֶר | baboker | in the morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| וַיַּֽחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַגִּבְעָֽה׃ פ | hagivah | <the> Gibeah | H1390 → | 45 times |
וַיָּק֥וּמוּand they arose
vaiyakumuH6965 →628 times
בְנֵֽי־[the] people of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
בַּבֹּ֑קֶרin the morning
babokerH1242 →214 times
וַיַּֽחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַגִּבְעָֽה׃ פ<the> Gibeah
hagivahH1390 →45 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Joshua 6:12Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took the ark of the LORD.
it leads to
- Joshua 3:1
Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hebrews 11:7–8
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
- Joshua 6:6–8
So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”
- John 6:10–11
“Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.
- Deuteronomy 31:25
he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:
- Joshua 3:1
Through
Joshua 3:1Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
it leads to
- Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- Mark 1:35
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.
- Jeremiah 26:5
and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
- Joshua 2:1
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This page draws on Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy 3.19.115-16; Ambrose of Milan, LETTER 33; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.