“ Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel. ”
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....
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. No JFB commentary o...
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...
Ye are all children of Israel. — There would not be much point in this remark. Rather, ye are all here, children of Israel. Your advice and counsel. — Judges 19:30 . “In the multitude of coun...
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...
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...
I pass by the relation of the story itself, (for we had it before in the preceding chapter) to call the Reader's attention to the Levites appeal. What are, or ought to be the children of Israel? Mose...
Behold, ye are all children of Israel ,.... The descendants of one man that feared the Lord; were of one nation, and of one religion, men professing godliness, and therefore ought to bear testimony...
Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel. Ver. 7. Behold, ye are all children of Israel. ] This injury reacheth not to me alone, but to the whole community.
Ye are The sons of that holy man, who, for one filthy action, left an eternal brand upon one of his own sons: a people in covenant with the holy God, whose honour you are obliged to vindicate, and...
JUSTICE FOR THE GUILTY REFUSED BY BENJAMIN (vv. 1-13) All the tribes were united in their insistence that judgment must be carried out against those who were guilty of criminal abuse and murder....
The Combination Against Gibeah. B. C. 1410. 1 Then all the children of Israel went out,...
Children of Israel; the sons of that holy man, who for one filthy action left all eternal brand upon one of his own sons; a people in covenant with the holy God, whose honour you are obliged to vin...
‘ Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.' This was probably an official way of ending testimony. He requested the court to consider the facts and give thei...
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 20:11 . 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...
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...
EXPOSITION Judges 20:1 Went out , i.e. from their several homes to the place of meeting. The congregation . The technical term (not, however, found in Samuel and Kings, except in 1 Kin...
The Benjamites Refuse to Deliver up the Guilty
1 Corinthians 5:1 ; 1 Corinthians 5:10-12 ; 1 Corinthians 5:6 ; Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Deuteronomy 14:2 ; Deuteronomy 4:6 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; James 1:5 ; Joshua 9:14 ; Judges 19:30 ;...
Ye are — The sons of that holy man, who for one filthy action left an eternal brand upon one of his own sons: a people in covenant with the holy God, whose honour you are obliged to vindicate, and...