£ Sele&ed our of the main Body, which was at Baal. Tamar; and theſe were to march dire&ly to Gibeah one the one ſide, whilſt the liers in wait ſtormed it on the other fide, and whilit the great Bedy of the Army laboured to intereept theſe Benjamites, who ha- ving purſued the 1ſrzel;res that prerended to flee, now endeavoured to retreat to Gi5eah. þ They were ſo puffed up with their former Succefles, that they were inſenſible of their danger.
35 And the LORD ſmorce Benjamin before Iſrael, and the children of Iſrael deſtroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thouſand, andan hundred men i; all theſe drew the ſword.
7 This 1s the total Sum, whereof the particulars are related, v:44; 45+ and for the odd hundred nor there mentioned, they,were killed 1n Other places not th-re expreſſed.
36 So the children of Benjamin ſaw that they were {micten : for the men of If{rael gave place to che Benja- mites, becauſe they truſted unto the liers in wait, which they had ſet beſide Gibeah.
37 And the liers in wait haſted, and ruſhed upon Gibeah, and the liers in wait || drew themſelves along &, || Or, ma, and ſmote all the city with the edge of the ſword s long
k Or, extended themſelves ; i: e: whereas before they lay cloſe and found contratted into a narrow compals, now they ſpread themſelves, and with the) Marched in Rank and File as Armies do. Or, marched, or wens ; txUMPer. Heb: drew their Feet. So this Verb is ofc uſed, as Gen: 37: 28. Exod; 12: 21. Judges 4: 6s Job 21: 33+ |
38' Now there was an appointed || ſign between the || Or, im, men of [Iſrael F and the liers in wait, that they fhould T H=b+ | make a great # flame with ſmoke to rife up out of the + = | city, | elevations |
39 And when the men of Iſrael retired in the battel, Benjamin began Þ to ſmite and kill of the men of Iſrael + Heb #0 about thirty perſons ; for they ſaid, Surely they are mite the | {mitten down before w, as i» the firſt battel; —
' 49 But when the flame began to riſe up out of the | city, with a pillar of ſmoke, the Benjamites looked be-
hind them, and behold, the + flame of the city aſcen- + eb. ch | ded up to heaven. | whole cone
41 And when the men of Iſrael turned again, the men/#»prion., of Benjamin were amazed /; for they ſaw what evil | + Heb: was come upon them. rotxched
1 Becauſe of their great diſappointment, and the preſent danger ;hew: wherewith they were ſurrounded on every ſide.
42 Therefore they rcurned their backs before the men of Iſrael, unto the way of the wilderneſs, but the bat- tel overtook them : and them which ceme out of the
Cities, they deſtroyed in the midſt of them ».
mM i: ez The men of Battel or War. The abſtratt for the concrete, as Poverty, 2 Kings 24: I4. Prids, Pſal: 36: 11. Decat, Provs 12: 25, Dreams, Jer: 25: 9. Elim, Rom. 11: 7. are put for Perſons that are Poor, Proud, LH Dreamers, Ele, n So the ſenſe may ſeem ro bs this, That the Iſraelites did not only kill the Inhabitants of Grbeah, and all the Binjamites that came into the Field againſt them, 600 excepted ; but in the midſt of them, or together with them, they killed alſo the reſt of the Benjamites, who, when they ſaw their Ar- my was wholly deſtroyed, made haſte to flze out of their ſeveral Cities or Towns, that fo they might eſcape the Sword, which was coming towards them. Bur the words may be rendred thus: 4nd them who were of the other cities, to wit, of Benjamin, i: e: who abode in their own Cities, and did nor go up to G:beah, they deffroyed in the midſt of them, i- e: 1n their ſeveral Cities, or, in the midf of it, i. e. of every City : for ſo it is ſaid, vs 48: where it is ſaid That they ſmoze the men of every City. But this I ſubrit to the Lexrned.
Thws they encloled the Benjamites round about, and chaſed them, and trode them down || with eaſe o, | Or;from + over againſt Gibeah rowards the ſun-riſing. Manu»
o Without great difficulty. Now that GOD gave chem his pre- chah, Ov. ſence and a. they eaſi'y did that which before they found Heb. too hard for them. Or, unto Mmuchsh, or, as far as Manuchah, a 9 v7 place fo called. See 1 Chron: 2; 52. Jer: 51: 59. againſt,
44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thouſand men p; all theſe were men ot valour,
2 To wit, in the Field, or Bartel.
45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderneſs,
unto the rock of Rimmon3and they gleaned q of them in the high- ways five thouſand men ; and purſued hard after them unto Gidom, and flew two thouſand men of them. | q1.e. They cut off the remaigders of the purſuit, and ſpare
none. A Mcraphor from thoſe who gather Grapes or Cora io clears
VP and fully, that they leave no Relicks for thoſe who come afrex them.
46 So that all which fell thac day of Benjamin,
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were twenty and five thouſand » men that drew the
. all theſe were men of valour. _ the odd hundred expreſſed verſe 35. but here _y = rear Number is <xpreſſed, the leis being omitted, as inconſi era G Ehich way of numbring is frequent in Scripture, as Judges 11: . C 2 Seam: 5:5. and in oth-r Authors, and in vulgar uſe ; as _ tl cy are called, che 7» Int<rpret-rs, who in rruth and exa _ __ 72. Here are alſ> a Thouſand more omitted, becau - cre he ſpeaks only of them who tell zz 5497 thi:d day of Bartel» See on v:
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wilderneſs, unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the Rimmon four moneths. | » wy Cave wichin that Rock, where they Fortified themſclves,
: I | ity ; which they could "rOhed in Proviſion as they had opportunity ; whic | — __ the heat of the Battcl was over, and the 1[raelites
t ſolicitous to purſue them further. ; "48 And the men of Iſrael turned again upon the
children of Benjamin #t, and ſmore them with the edge of the ſword, as well the men « of every city, as the
| eb:wes beaſt, and all that | came to hand : alſo they ſet on