Judges 21:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Who in such public and scandalous crimes were, for the greater terror of such transgressors, and prevention of the like sins, oft involved in the same punishment with the men, as Deuteronomy 13:15 Joshua 7:24, &c.

Judges 21:10

10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.