Judges 20:10

Judges 20:10

8 So all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, nor will any turn back to his house;

9 but now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: We will go up ^aagainst it by lot.

10 We will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel.”

11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united together as one man.

12 ^aThen the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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According, etc. - That we may punish them as such a wickedness deserves. In Israel - This is added as an aggravation, that they should do that in Israel, or among God's peculiar people, which was esteemed abominable even among the Heathen.

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