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 * I am now.
   The LXX. read, [eis ton oikon mou ego poreuomai:]  "I am going
   to my own house;" which is probably the true reading, as we
   find (ver. 29) that he really went home; yet he might have
   gone previously to Shiloh, or to "the house of the Lord,"
   because that was also in mount Ephraim.

 * the house.
 # 18:31 20:18 Jos 18:1 1Sa 1:3,7
 * receiveth.  Heb. gathereth.
 # 5 Ps 26:9 Joh 15:6
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 * straw and provender.
   In those countries principally devoted to pasturage, they made
   little or no hay:  but as they raised corn, they took great
   care of their straw for cattle, which by their mode of
   threshing was chopped very small.  See note on Ge 24:32.
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 * Peace be.
 # 6:23 Ge 43:23,24 1Sa 25:6 1Ch 12:18 Lu 10:5,6 Joh 14:27
 # 1Co 1:3
 * let all thy wants.
   Here was genuine hospitality:  "Keep your bread and wine for
   yourselves, and your straw and provender for your asses; you
   may need them before you finish your journey:  I will supply
   all your wants for this night; only do not lodge in the
   street."

 # Ro 12:13 Ga 6:6 Heb 13:2 Jas 2:15,16 1Pe 4:9 1Jo 3:18
 * lodge not.
 # Ge 19:2,3 24:31-33
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 * So he brought.
 # Ge 24:32 43:24
 * they washed.
 # Ge 18:4 1Sa 25:41 2Sa 11:8 Lu 7:44 Joh 13:4,5,14,15 1Ti 5:10
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 * they were.
 # 6,7 16:25
 * the men.
 # 20:5 Ge 19:4 Ho 9:9 10:9
 * sons of Belial.
 # De 13:13 1Sa 1:16 2:12 10:27 25:25 2Sa 23:6,7 2Co 6:15
 * Bring forth.
 # Ge 19:5 Ro 1:26,27 1Co 6:9 Jude 1:7
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 * the man.
 # Ge 19:6,7
 * do not this folly.
 # 20:6 Ge 34:7 Jos 7:15 2Sa 13:12
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 * Behold.
   The rites of hospitality are regarded as sacred and inviolable
   in the East:  and a man who has admitted a stranger under his
   roof, is bound to protect him even at the expense of his life.
   On these high notions only, the influence of which an Asiatic
   mind alone can appreciate, can the present transaction be
   either excused or palliated.

 * them.
 # Ge 19:8 Ro 3:8
 * humble ye.
 # Ge 34:2 *marg:
 # De 21:14
 * so vile a thing.  Heb. the matter of this folly.
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 * knew her.
 # Ge 4:1
 * and abused.
 # Jer 5:7,8 Ho 7:4-7 9:9 10:9 Eph 4:19
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 * her lord was.
 # 3,27 Ge 18:12 1Pe 3:6
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 # 27
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 * But none.
 # 20:5 1Ki 18:29
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 * divided her.
   It is probable, that with the pieces he sent to each tribe a
   circumstantial account of the barbarity of the men of Gibeah;
   and that they considered each of the pieces as expressing an
   execration.  That a similar custom prevailed in ancient times
   is evident from 1 SA 11:7.  It had an inhuman appearance, thus
   to mangle the corpse of this unhappy woman; but it was
   intended to excite a keener resentment against so horrible a
   crime, which called for a punishment proportionally severe.

 # 20:6,7 Ro 10:2
 * with her bones.
 # De 21:22,23
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 * consider.
 # 20:7 Pr 11:14 13:10 15:22 20:18 24:6
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  1  The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.
  8  The decree of the assembly.
 12  The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the
     Israelites.
 18  The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand.
 26  They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except
     six hundred.

 * Then all.
 # 2,8,11 21:5 De 13:12-18 Jos 22:12
 * as one man.
 # 1Sa 11:7,8 2Sa 19:14 Ezr 3:1 Ne 8:1
 * from Dan.
 # 18:29 1Sa 3:20 2Sa 3:10 24:2 1Ch 21:2 2Ch 30:5
 * with the.
 # Nu 32:1,40 Jos 17:1 2Sa 2:9
 * unto the.
 # 18,26 11:11
 * in Mizpeh.
 # 10:17 11:11 Jos 15:38 18:26 1Sa 7:5,6 10:17 2Ki 25:23
   It does not appear that the Israelites on this occasion, were
   summoned by the authority of any one common head, but they
   came together by the consent and agreement, as it were, of one
   common heart, fired with a holy zeal for the honour of God and
   Israel.  The place of their meeting was Mizpeh; they gathered
   together unto the Lord there; for Mizpeh was so very near to
   Shiloh, that their encampment might very well be supposed to
   reach from Mizpeh to Shiloh.  Shiloh was a small town, and
   therefore, when there was a general meeting of the people to
   present themselves before God, they chose Mizpeh for their
   head quarters, which was the next adjoining city of note;
   perhaps, because they were not willing to give that trouble to
   Shiloh, which so great an assembly would occasion; it being
   the residence of the priests that attended the tabernacle.
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 * drew sword.
 # 15,17 8:10 2Sa 24:9 2Ki 3:26
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 * the children of Benjamin.
 # Pr 22:3 Mt 5:25 Lu 12:58,59 14:31,32
 * how was.
 # 19:22-27
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 * the Levite.  Heb. the man the Levite.  I came.
 # 19:15-28
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 * And the men.
 # 19:22
 * beset.
 # Ge 19:4-8
 * and my concubine.
 # 19:25,26
 * forced.  Heb. humbled.
 # De 22:24 Eze 22:10,11
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 * cut her.
 # 19:29
 * folly in Israel.
 # 10 19:23 Ge 34:7 Jos 7:15 2Sa 13:12,13
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 * ye are all.
 # Ex 19:5,6 De 4:6 14:1,2 1Co 5:1,6,10-12
 * give here.
 # 19:30 Jos 9:14 Pr 20:18 24:6 Jas 1:5
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 * as one man.
 # 1,11
 * We will not.
 # 21:1,5 Pr 21:3 Ec 9:10
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 * by lot against it.
 # Jos 14:2 1Sa 14:41,42 1Ch 24:5 Ne 11:1 Pr 16:33 Jon 1:7
 # Ac 1:26
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 # 10
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 Knit together as one man. Heb. fellows.
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 * sent men.
 # De 13:14 20:10 Jos 22:13-16 Mt 18:15-18 Ro 12:18
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 * deliver.
 # 2Sa 20:21,22
 * children of Belial.
 # 19:22 De 13:13 1Sa 30:22 2Sa 20:1 23:6 1Ki 21:13 2Ch 13:7
 * put away.
 # De 17:7,12 19:19 21:21 22:21,24 24:7 Ec 11:10
 * would not.
 # 1Sa 2:25 2Ch 25:16,20 Pr 29:1 Ho 9:9 10:9 Ro 1:32 Re 18:4,5
   The conduct of the Israelites was very equitable in this
   demand; but perhaps the rulers or elders of Gibeah ought
   previously to have been applied to, to deliver up the
   criminals to justice.  However, the refusal of the Benjamites,
   and their protection of those who had committed this horrible
   wickedness, because they were of their own tribe, prove them
   to have been deeply corrupted, and (all their advantages
   considered) as ripe for divine vengeance as the inhabitants of
   Sodom and Gomorrah had been.  Confiding in their own valour
   and military skill, they seen to have first prepared for
   battle in this unequal contest with such superior numbers.
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 # Nu 20:20 21:23 2Ch 13:13 Job 15:25,26
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 * twenty.
 # 25,35,46,47 Nu 26:41
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 * left-handed.
   {Itter yad yemeeno,} "obstructed in his right hand;" so the
   Chaldee Targum, {gemid beedaih deyammeena,} contracted or
   impeded in his right hand."  Le Clerc observes, that the 700
   men left-handed seem therefore to have been made slingers,
   because they could not use the right hand, which is employed
   in managing heavier arms; and they could discharge the stones
   from the sling in a direction against which their opponents
   were not upon their guard, and thus do the greater execution.

 # 3:15 1Ch 12:2
 * sling stones.
   The sling was a very ancient warlike instrument; and, in the
   hands of those who were skilled in the use of it, produced
   astonishing effects.  The inhabitants of the islands of
   Baleares, now Majorca and Minorca, were the most celebrated
   slingers of antiquity.  They did not permit their children to
   break their fast, till they had struck down the bread they had
   to eat from the top of a pole, or some distant eminence.
   Vegetius tells us, that slingers could in general hit the mark
   at 600 feet distance.

 # 1Sa 17:40,49,50 25:29 2Ch 26:14
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 * four hundred.
 # 2 Nu 1:46 26:51 1Sa 11:8 15:4 1Ch 21:5 2Ch 17:14-18
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 * house of.
 # 18:31 19:18 Jos 18:1 Joe 1:14
 * asked.
 # 7,23,26,27 1:1 Nu 27:5,21 Jos 9:14
 * Judah.
 # 1:1,2 Ge 49:8-10
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 * rose up.
 # Jos 3:1 6:12 7:16
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 # 20
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 * the children.
 # Ge 49:27 Ho 10:9
 * destroyed.
 # De 23:9 2Ch 28:10 Ps 33:16 73:18,19 77:19 Ec 9:1-3 Jer 12:1
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 * encouraged.
 # 15,17 1Sa 30:6 2Sa 11:25 Ps 64:5
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 * wept.
 # 26,27 Ps 78:34-36 Ho 5:15
 * And the.
   It seems most evident that the Israelites did not seek the
   protection of God.  When they "went to the house of God,"
   (ver. 18,) it was not to enquire concerning the expediency of
   the war, nor of its success, but which of the tribes should
   begin the attack:  and here the question is, "Shall I go up
   again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?"
   Having so much right on their side, they had no doubt of the
   justice of their cause, and the propriety of their conduct;
   and having such a superiority of numbers, they had no doubt of
   success.  But God humbled them, and delivered them into the
   hands of their enemies; and shewed them that the race was not
   to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
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 # 24
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 * destroyed.
 # 21 Ge 18:25 Job 9:12,13 Ps 97:2 Ro 2:5 3:5 11:33
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 * all the children.
 # 18,23
 * wept.
 # 1Sa 7:6 2Ch 20:3 Ezr 8:21 9:4,5 Joe 1:14 2:12-18 Jon 3:5-10
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 * enquired.
 # 18,23 Nu 27:21
 * the ark.
 # Jos 18:1 1Sa 4:3,4 Ps 78:60,61 Jer 7:12
   The loss of two battles at length brought this stiff-necked
   people to enquire of the Lord; for all the company at this
   time met at Shiloh, and kept a day of fasting and prayer with
   great earnestness and solemnity.  "Behold, the Lord's hand is
   not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
   that it cannot hear."

 # Isa 59:1
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 * Phinehas.
   It is evident, from this mention of Phinehas, the son of
   Eleazar, that these transactions must have taken place not
   long after the death of Joshua.

 # Nu 25:7-13 Jos 22:13,30-32 24:33
 * stood.
 # De 10:8 18:5
 * Shall I yet.
 # Jos 7:7 1Sa 14:37 23:4-12 30:8 2Sa 5:19-24 6:3,7-12 Pr 3:5,6
 # Jer 10:23
 * Go up.
 # 1:2 7:9 2Ch 20:17
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 * Israel.
   Though God had promised them success, they knew they could
   expect it only by the use of proper means.  Hence they used
   all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill.

 * liers.
 # 34 Jos 8:4 2Sa 5:23
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 # 30
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 * drawn.
 # Jos 8:14-16
 * smite of the people, and kill, as at.  Heb. smite of the
   people wounded as at, etc.  the house of God.  or, Beth-el.
   Gibeah.
 # 19:13,14 Isa 10:29
 * thirty.
 # Jos 7:5
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 * Let us flee.
   This was done, not only because they had placed an ambuscade
   behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as
   the Benjamites left it; but it would seem, that the slingers,
   by being within the city and its fortifications, had great
   advantage over the Israelites by their slings, when they could
   not come among them with their swords, unless they got them in
   the plain country.

 # Jos 8:15,16
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 * rose up.
 # Jos 8:18-22
 * put themselves.
   There appear to have been three divisions of the Israelitish
   army:  one at Baal-tamar, (which was situated, says Eusebius,
   near Gibeah;) a second behind the city in ambush; and a third,
   who skirmished with the Benjamites before Gibeah.
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 * ten thousand.
 # 29
 * knew not.
 # Jos 8:14 Job 21:13 Pr 4:19 29:6 Ec 8:11,12 9:12 Isa 3:10,11
 # Isa 47:11 Mt 24:44 Lu 21:34 21:34 1Th 5:3
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 * twenty.
 # 15,44-46 Job 20:5
   Though the numbers of the Israelites were immensely superior
   to those of Benjamin, though the stratagem was well laid and
   ingeniously executed, and the battle bravely fought, yet the
   inspired historian ascribes the victory to the hand of the
   Lord, as entirely as if he had smitten the Benjamites by a
   miracle.
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 * for the man.
 # Jos 8:15-29
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 * the liers in wait hasted.
 # Jos 8:19
 * drew themselves along.  or, made a long sound with the
   trumpets.
 # Ex 19:13 Jos 6:5