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Selected Verse: Judges 20:3 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jud 20:3 |
Strong Concordance |
(Now the children [01121] of Benjamin [01144] heard [08085] that the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were gone up [05927] to Mizpeh [04709].) Then said [0559] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], Tell [01696] us, how was [01961] this wickedness [07451]? |
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King James |
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness? |
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] |
Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh--Some suppose that Benjamin had been passed over, the crime having been perpetrated within the territory of that tribe [Jdg 19:16]; and that, as the concubine's corpse had been divided into twelve pieces [Jdg 19:29] --two had been sent to Manasseh, one respectively to the western and eastern divisions. It is more probable that Benjamin had received a formal summons like the other tribes, but chose to treat it with indifference, or haughty disdain. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Heard - Like persons unconcerned and resolved, they neither went nor sent thither: partly for their own pride, and stubbornness; partly because as they were loth to give up any of their brethren to justice, so they presumed the other tribes would never proceed to war against them; and partly, from a Divine infatuation hardening that wicked tribe to their own destruction. Tell us - They speak to the Levite, and his servant, and his host, who doubtless were present upon this occasion. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Tell us, how was this wickedness? - They had heard before, by the messengers he sent with the fragments of his wife's body; but they wish to hear it, in full council, from himself. |
29 And when he was come [0935] into his house [01004], he took [03947] a knife [03979], and laid hold [02388] on his concubine [06370], and divided [05408] her, together with her bones [06106], into twelve [08147] [06240] pieces [05409], and sent [07971] her into all the coasts [01366] of Israel [03478].
16 And, behold, there came [0935] an old [02205] man [0376] from his work [04639] out of the field [07704] at even [06153], which was also [0376] of mount [02022] Ephraim [0669]; and he sojourned [01481] in Gibeah [01390]: but the men [0582] of the place [04725] were Benjamites [01145].