Judges 20:33 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 20:33

So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel brake forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.

KJV

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Baal-tamar is only mentioned here. It took its name from some palm-tree that grew there; perhaps the same as the “palm-tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel” Jdg 4:5, the exact locality here indicated, since “the highway” Jdg 20:31 along which the Israelites enticed the Benjamites to pursue them, leads straight to Ramah, which lay only a mile beyond the point where the two ways branch off. The meadows of Gibeah - The word rendered “meadow” is only found here. According to its etymology, it ought to mean a “bare open place”, which is particularly unsuitable for an ambush.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Baal-tamar--a palm-grove, where Baal was worshipped. The main army of the confederate tribes was drawn up there. out of the meadows of Gibeah--Hebrew, "the caves of Gibeah"; a hill in which the ambuscades lay hid.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכֹ֣ל׀	ve.Khol	and every	H3605 →
אִ֣ישׁ	'ish	<the> man of	H376 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
קָ֚מוּ	Ka.mu	they rose	H6965 →
מִמְּקוֹמ֔וֹ	mi.me.ko.Mo	from place his	H4725 →
וַיַּעַרְכ֖וּ	vai.ya.'ar.Khu	and they deployed	H6186 →
בְּבַ֣עַל	be.Va.'al	at Baal	H1193 →
תָּמָ֑ר	ta.Mar	Tamar	H1193 →
וְאֹרֵ֧ב	ve.'o.Rev	and [the] ambusher of	H693 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מֵגִ֥יחַ	me.Gi.ach	[was] bursting forth	H1518 →
מִמְּקֹמ֖וֹ	mi.me.ko.Mo	from place his	H4725 →
מִמַּֽעֲרֵה־	mi.ma.'a.reh-	from [the] open place of	H4629 →
גָֽבַע׃	Ga.va'	Geba	H1387 →