Judges 20:1

Israel’s War with the Benjamites

1 So ^aall the children of Israel came out, from ^bDan to ^cBeersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord ^dat Mizpah.

2 And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers ^awho drew the sword.

3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wicked deed happen?”

4 So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “My concubine and ^aI went into Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Judges 20:1

Unto the Lord in Mizpeh - This city was situated on the confines of Judah and Benjamin, and is sometimes attributed to the one, sometimes to the other. It seems that there was a place here in which the Lord was consulted, as well as at Shiloh; in 1 Maccabees 3:46, we read, In Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel. These two passages cast light on each other. Some think that Shiloh is meant, because the ark was there; but the phrase before the Lord may signify no more than meeting in the name of God to consult him, and make prayer and supplication. Wherever God' s people are, there is God himself; and it ever was true, that wherever two or three were assembled in his name, he was in the midst of them.

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