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Selected Verse: Judges 20:34 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jud 20:34 |
Strong Concordance |
And there came [0935] against [05048] Gibeah [01390] ten [06235] thousand [0505] chosen [0977] men [0376] out of all Israel [03478], and the battle [04421] was sore [03513]: but they knew [03045] not that evil [07451] was near [05060] them. |
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King James |
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men--This was a third division, different both from the ambuscade and the army, who were fighting at Baal-tamar. The general account stated in Jdg 20:35 is followed by a detailed narrative of the battle, which is continued to the end of the chapter. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Chosen men - Selected out of the main body, which was at Baal - tamar; and these were to march directly to Gibeah on the one side, whilst the liers in wait stormed it on the other side, and whilst the great body of the army laboured to intercept the Benjamites, who having pursued the Israelites that pretended to flee, now endeavoured to retreat to Gibeah. |
35 And the LORD [03068] smote [05062] Benjamin [01144] before [06440] Israel [03478]: and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] destroyed [07843] of the Benjamites [01145] that day [03117] twenty [06242] and five [02568] thousand [0505] and an hundred [03967] men [0376]: all these drew [08025] the sword [02719].