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* Now there.
From this verse to the end of the chapter, we have the details
of the same operations which are mentioned, in a general way,
in the preceding verses of this chapter.
* sign. or, time.
# Ge 17:21 2Ki 4:16 *marg:
* and. Heb. with. flame. Heb. elevation.
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* And when.
# 31
* smite and kill. Heb. smite the wounded.
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* a pillar.
# Ge 19:28 So 3:6 Joe 2:30 Re 19:3
* looked.
# Jos 8:20
* flame. Heb. whole consumption.
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* were amazed.
# Ex 15:9,10 Isa 13:8,9 33:14 Lu 17:27,28 21:26 1Th 5:3
# 2Pe 2:12 Re 6:15-17 18:8-10
* was come upon them. Heb. touched them.
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* the battle.
# La 1:3 Ho 9:9 10:9
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* inclosed.
# Jos 8:20-22
* with ease. or, from Menuchah, etc. over against. Heb. unto
over against.
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# 44
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* Rimmon.
# Jos 15:32 1Ch 6:77 Zec 14:10
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* twenty.
# 15,35
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* six hundred.
# 21:13 Ps 103:9,10 Isa 1:9 Jer 14:7 La 3:32 Hab 3:2
* rock of Rimmon.
The rock Rimmon was doubtless a strong place; but it is
uncertain where situated. It is probable however, that it was
near, and took its name from, the village of Remmon, mentioned
by Eusebius, fifteen miles north from Jerusalem. It appears
that rocks are still resorted to in the East, as places of
security; and some of them are even capable of sustaining a
siege. De La Roque says, that "The Grand Seignior, wishing to
seize the person of the emir (Fakr-eddin, prince of the
Druses,) gave orders to the pacha to take him prisoner: he
accordingly came in search of him, with a new army, in the
district of Chouf, which is part of mount Lebanon, wherein is
the village of Gesin, and close to it, the rock which served
for a retreat to the emir. It is named in Arabic, Magara
Gesin, i.e., the cavern of Gessin, by which name it is famous.
The pacha pressed the emir so closely, that this unfortunate
prince was obliged to shut himself up in the cleft of a great
rock, with a small number of his officers. The pacha besieged
him there several months; and was going to blow up the rock by
a mine, when the emir capitulated."
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* smote them.
# De 13:15-17 2Ch 25:13 28:6-9 Pr 18:19
* came to hand. Heb. was found. they came to. Heb. were
found.
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1 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin.
8 By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide them four
hundred wives.
16 They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that
danced at Shiloh.
* had sworn.
# 20:1,8,10 Jer 4:2
* There.
# 5 11:30,31 1Sa 14:24,28,29 Ec 5:2 Mr 6:23 Ac 23:12 Ro 10:2
* his daughter.
# Ex 34:12-16 De 7:2,3
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* the house.
# 12 20:18,23,26 Jos 18:1
* lifted.
# 2:4 Ge 27:38 1Sa 30:4
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* why is.
# De 29:24 Jos 7:7-9 Ps 74:1 80:12 Pr 19:3 Isa 63:17 Jer 12:1
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* rose early.
# Ps 78:34,35 Ho 5:15
* built there.
# 6:26 Ex 20:24,25 2Sa 24:18,25 1Ki 8:64 Heb 13:10
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* a great oath.
# 1,18 5:23 Le 27:28,29 1Sa 11:7 Jer 48:10
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* repented them.
# 15 11:35 20:23 2Sa 2:26 Ho 11:8 Lu 19:41,42
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* sworn.
# 1,18 1Sa 14:28,29,45
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* Jabesh-gilead.
This place, as its name imports, was situated in Gilead, east
of Jordan. Eusebius and Jerome say it was a great town in
their time, standing upon a hill, six miles south from Pella,
in the way to Geresa, now Djerash. The Wady Yabes, mentioned
by Burckhardt, which empties itself into the Jordan, in the
neighbourhood of Bisan or Beth-shan (see 1 Sa 31:11,) and upon
which Pella was situated, (celebrated by Pliny, 1. v. c. 18,
for its fine waters,) seems to have taken its name from
Jabesh. Near this spot, we must therefore look for its site;
and the place called Kalaat Rabbad seems to correspond, very
nearly, to the spot; though it probably still retains among
the Arabs its ancient name.
# 1Sa 11:1-3 31:11-13 2Sa 2:5,6
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# 9
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* Go and smite.
As they had sworn to destroy those who would not assist in the
war (ver. 5,) they determined to destroy the men of Jabesh,
and to leave none except the virgins; and to give these to the
600 Benjamites who had escaped to the rock of Rimmon. The
whole account is dreadful. The crime of the men of Gibeah was
of the deepest dye; the punishment involving both the guilty
and innocent, was extended to the most criminal excess, and
their mode of remedying the evil they had occasioned was
equally abominable.
# 5 5:23 De 13:15 Jos 7:24 1Sa 11:7 15:3
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* every male.
# Nu 31:17,18 De 2:34
* hath lain by man. Heb. knoweth the lying with man.
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* virgins. Heb. women, virgins. Shiloh.
# 20:18,23 Jos 18:1 Ps 78:60 Jer 7:12
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* to speak. Heb. and spake and called. the rock Rimmon.
# 20:47 Jos 15:32
* call peaceably. or, proclaim peace.
# De 20:10 Isa 57:19 Lu 10:5 Eph 2:17
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* sufficed them not.
# 12 20:47 1Co 7:2
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* repented.
# 6,17
* a breach.
# 1Ch 13:11 15:13 Isa 30:13 58:12
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# 16
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* an inheritance.
# Nu 26:55 36:7
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* sworn.
# 1 11:35
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* a feast.
# Ex 23:14-16 Le 23:2,4,6,10,34 Nu 10:10 28:16,26 29:12
# De 16:1,10,13 Ps 81:3 Joh 5:1 7:2
* yearly. Heb. from year to year. on the east side. or,
toward the sun rising. of the highway. or, on. Lebonah.
Maundrell supposes, that either Khan Leban, which is situated
on the eastern side of a "delicious vale," four leagues south
from Shechem, and two leagues north from Bethel, or the
village of Leban, which is on the opposite side, occupies the
site of the ancient Lebonah. It is eight hours, or about 24
miles, from Jerusalem, according to Dr. Richardson.
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# 20
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* dance.
# 11:34 Ex 15:20 1Sa 18:6 2Sa 6:14,21 Ps 149:3 150:4 Ec 3:4
# Jer 31:13 Mt 10:17 Lu 17:25
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* Be favourable unto them. or, Gratify us in them.
# Phm 1:9-12
* each man.
# 14 Ge 1:27 7:13 Mr 10:6-8 1Co 7:2
* give unto.
# 1,7,18 Pr 20:25
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* and they went.
It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honourable
way to the women they had thus violently carried off, and we
may rest assured, that they took them to an inheritance more
than equal to their own. But this transaction, as well as the
indiscriminate massacre of the people of Jabesh-gilead, as Dr.
Gray observes, was certainly stamped with injustice and
cruelty; and must be condemned on those principles which the
Scriptures elsewhere furnish.
* repaired.
# 20:48
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# 24
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* no.
# 17:6 18:1 19:1
* right.
# 18:7 De 12:8 Ps 12:4 Pr 3:5 14:12 Ec 11:9 Mic 2:1,2
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JUDGES.
The book of Judges forms an important link in the history of the
Israelites. It furnishes us with a lively description of a
fluctuating and unsettled nation; a striking picture of the
disorders and dangers which prevailed in a republic without
magistracy; when "the high-ways were unoccupied, and the
travellers walked through by-ways," (ch. 5:6;) when few prophets
were appointed to control the people, and "every one did that
which was right in his own eyes." (ch. 17:6.) It exhibits the
contest of true religion with superstition; and displays the
beneficial effects that flow from the former, and the miseries
and evil consequences of impiety. It is a most remarkable
history of the long-suffering of God towards the Israelites, in
which we see the most signal instances of his justice and mercy
alternately displayed: the people sinned, and were punished;
they repented, and found mercy. These things are written for
our warning: none should presume, for God is just; none need
despair, for God is merciful. Independently of the internal
evidence of the authenticity of this sacred book, the
transactions it records are not only cited or alluded to by
other inspired writers, but are further confirmed by the
traditions current among heathen nations.
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1 Elimelech, driven by famine into Moab, dies there.
4 Mahlon and Chilion, having married wives of Moab, die also.
6 Naomi, returning homeward,
8 dissuades her two daughters-in-law from going with her.
14 Orpah leaves her, but Ruth with great constancy accompanies
her.
19 They two come to Beth-lehem, where they are gladly received.
* the judges.
# Jud 2:16 12:8
* ruled. Heb. judged. a famine.
# Ge 12:10 26:1 43:1 Le 26:19 De 28:23,24,38 2Sa 21:1
# 1Ki 17:1-12 18:2 2Ki 8:1,2 Ps 105:16 107:34 Jer 14:1
# Eze 14:13,21 Joe 1:10,11,16-20 Am 4:6
* Beth-lehem-judah.
# Jud 17:8 19:1,2
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* Elimelech.
The Rabbins say, that Elimelech was the son of Salmon, who
married Rahab; and that Naomi was his niece.
* Naomi.
# 20
* Mahlon.
It is imagined, and not without probability, that Mahlon and
Chilion are the same with Joash and Saraph, mentioned in 1 Ch
4:22.
* Ephrathites.
# Ge 35:19 1Sa 1:1 17:21 Mic 5:2
* continued. Heb. were.
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* and she was.
# 2Ki 4:1 Ps 34:19 Heb 12:6,10,11
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* they took.
The Targum says, "they transgressed the decree of the word of
the Lord, and took to them strange women."
* wives.
# De 7:3 23:3 1Ki 11:1,2
* Ruth.
# Mt 1:5
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* A.M. 2696. B.C. 1308. An. Ex. Is. 183. Mahlon.
# De 32:39 Ps 89:30-32 Jer 2:19
* died.
The Targum adds, "And because they transgressed the decree of
the word of the Lord, and joined affinity with strange people,
therefore their days were cut off."
* and the woman.
# Isa 49:21 Mt 22:25-27 Lu 7:12
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* visited.
# Ge 21:1 50:25 Ex 3:16 4:31 1Sa 2:21 Lu 1:68 19:44 1Pe 2:12
* in giving.
# Ge 28:20 48:15 Ex 16:4-6 Ps 104:14,15 111:5 132:15 145:15
# Ps 146:7 147:14 Pr 30:8 Isa 55:10 Mt 6:11 1Ti 6:8
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* she went.
# 2Ki 8:3
* they went.
# 10,14 Ex 18:27
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* Go.
# Jos 24:15-28 Lu 14:25-33
* the Lord.
# Php 4:18,19 2Ti 1:16-18
* the dead.
# 5 2:20 Eph 5:22 6:2,3 Col 3:18,24
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* rest.
# 3:1
* she kissed.
# Ge 27:27 29:11 45:15 Ac 20:37
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* Surely.
# Ps 16:3 119:63 Zec 8:23
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* are there.
This alludes to the custom that when a married brother died,
without leaving posterity, his brother should take his widow;
and the children of such marriages were accounted those of the
deceased brother. This address of Naomi to her
daughter-in-law is exceedingly tender, persuasive, and
affecting.
* that they.
# Ge 38:11 De 25:5
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* too old.
# Ge 17:17 1Ti 5:9
* I should have. or, I were with.
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* tarry. Heb. hope. it grieveth me much. Heb. I have much
bitterness. the hand.
# De 2:15 Jud 2:15 1Sa 5:11 Job 19:21 Ps 32:4 38:2 39:9,10
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* Orpah.
# Ge 31:28,55 1Ki 19:20 Mt 10:37 19:22 Mr 10:21,22 2Ti 4:10
* but Ruth.
The LXX. add, [kai epestrepsen eis ton laon autes,] "and
returned to her own people." The Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic
are to the same purpose. It seems a very natural addition,
and agrees with the assertion in the next verse; and is
accordingly adopted by Houbigant as a part of the text.
# De 4:4 10:20 Pr 17:17 18:24 Isa 14:1 Zec 8:23 Mt 16:24
# Joh 6:66-69 Ac 17:34 Heb 10:39