And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
Ver. 28. Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver them.] Now they have a promise, which before they had none. Josephus saith a that when they inquired of God by Urim and Thummim, as here they did, the splendour and brightness of the high priest's breastplate foreshowed victory. Certain it is that this promise did so.
a Antiq., lib. iii. cap. 3.