Phinehas — This is added to give us light about the time of this history, and to shew it was not done in the order in which it is here placed, after Samson's death, but long before. Stood — That is ministered as high — priest. The Lord said — When they sought God after the due order, and truly humbled themselves for their sins, he gives them a satisfactory answer.
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Judges 20:28
28 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.