Judges 20:38 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now there was an appointed signe between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. ”

Judges 20:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 20. The Outrage Avenged. The congregation (LXX Synagô gç) is a post-exilic term. The words as one man suggest a unity of action such as was not secured till long after the time of the Judges....
Judges 20:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. Now there was an appointed sign - From this ve...
Judges 20:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword. No JFB commenta...
Judges 20:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Slaughter of the Benjamites The Levite recounts his wrongs to a full assemblage of the tribes, who decree punishment upon Benjamin. Their first two attacks are unsuccessful, but the third resu...
Judges 20:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

signal which had been agreed upon. That they should make. — Literally, multiply to cause to ascend. The actual words of the agreed on signal are quoted. For the word hereb (which is an imperat...
Judges 20:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 20:1-48 ; Judges 21:1-25 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1-30 ; Judges 20:1-48 ; Judges 21:1-25 THESE last Chapter s describe a general and vehement outburst of moral indign...
Judges 20:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The action of the Levite served its purpose. The nation was stirred momentarily to its center. A great moral passion flamed out. Underneath all the degeneracy was a true stratum of religious convicti...
Judges 20:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we see that through the whole the victory was not doubtful. The Lord hereby taught Israel, who perhaps vaunted more upon the strength of their numbers, compared to Benjamin and Gibeah, than simp...
Judges 20:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait ,.... Or an appointed time z as the Targum; so Kimchi and Abarbinel. There was a time fixed, at which the men of Israe...
Judges 20:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. Ver. 38. Between the men of Israel. ] That...
Judges 20:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Defeat of the Benjamites. B. C. 1410. 26 Then all the children of Israel, and all th...
Judges 20:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Judges 20:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.' The smoke would alert their fellow soldiers tha...
Judges 20:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE CRY FOR VENGEANCE ( Judges 20:1-48 .) HOMILETICS 1. This cry was universal ( Judges 20:1 ). “From Dan to Beershebah, with Gilead.” There was not a dissentient voice. 2. They were in ear...
Judges 20:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 20:11 . All the men of Israel were knit together. Why had they not assembled against Micah and his chapel of gods? Then this and other evils might have been prevented. This was a just and n...
Judges 20:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

The men of Israel turned again upon the children of BenJamin. From justice to wild revenge It may be asked how, while polygamy was practised among the Israelites, the sin of Gibeah could rouse...
Judges 20:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 20:18 The house of God . In this rendering the A.V. follows the Vulgate, which has in domum Dei, hoc est, in Silo. But the Septuagint has Βαιθὴλ, and all the ancient a...
Judges 20:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Benjamites Defeated and Almost Exterminated
Judges 20:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 4:16 ; Genesis 17:21

Judges 20:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 20:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 20:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 20:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 20:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 20:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 20:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 20:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 20:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 20:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 20:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 20:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 20:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 20:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 20:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 20:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 20:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 20:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 20:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge