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Selected Verse: Judges 20:21 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Jud 20:21	Strong Concordance	And the children [01121] of Benjamin [01144] came forth [03318] out of Gibeah [01390], and destroyed down [07843] to the ground [0776] of the Israelites [03478] that day [03117] twenty [06242] and two [08147] thousand [0505] men [0376].
	King James	And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Gibeah, being on a hill, was difficult of access to an attacking army, and gave great advantage to the defenders, who fought from higher ground, and probably defended a narrow pass, while their companions on the walls could gall the assailants with their slingstones.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Gibeah, being on a hill, was difficult of access to an attacking army, and gave great advantage to the defenders, who fought from higher ground, and probably defended a narrow pass, while their companions on the walls could gall the assailants with their slingstones.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Destroyed, &c. - Why would God suffer them to have so great a loss in so good a cause? Because they had many and great sins reigning among themselves, and they should not have come to so great a work of God, with polluted hands, but should have pulled the beam out of their own eye, before they attempted to take that out of their brother Benjamin's eye: which because they did not, God doth it for them, bringing them through the fire, that they might he purged from their dross; it being probable that the great God who governs every stroke in battle, did so order things, that their worst members should be cut off, which was a great blessing to the whole common - wealth. And God would hereby shew, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. We must never lay that weight on an arm of flesh, which only the Rock of Ages will bear.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Destroyed, &c. - Why would God suffer them to have so great a loss in so good a cause? Because they had many and great sins reigning among themselves, and they should not have come to so great a work of God, with polluted hands, but should have pulled the beam out of their own eye, before they attempted to take that out of their brother Benjamin's eye: which because they did not, God doth it for them, bringing them through the fire, that they might he purged from their dross; it being probable that the great God who governs every stroke in battle, did so order things, that their worst members should be cut off, which was a great blessing to the whole common - wealth. And God would hereby shew, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. We must never lay that weight on an arm of flesh, which only the Rock of Ages will bear.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Destroyed down to the ground - twenty-two thousand men - That is, so many were left dead on the field of battle.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Destroyed down to the ground - twenty-two thousand men - That is, so many were left dead on the field of battle.

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