Shìshījì 20:29

29 Yǐsèliè rén zaì jī bǐ yà de sìwéi shè xià fú bīng .

Shìshījì 20:29 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:29

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
] For though they were assured of success and victory, yet they thought proper to make use of means: and though their numbers were very great, they had recourse to art and stratagem, and set an ambush in divers places, much in like manner as Israel did for the men of Ai; the two cases being pretty much similar; this ambush was set in the night, as Josephus says ^F19,

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2.) sect. 11.

Shìshījì 20:29 In-Context

27 Nàshí , shén de yuē guì zaì nàli . Yàlún de sūnzi , YǐlìYàsā de érzi Fēiníhā shì lì zaì yuē guì qián . Yǐsèliè rén wèn Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒmen dāng zaì chū qù yǔ wǒmen dìxiōng Biànyǎmǐn rén dǎzhàng ne . háishì ba bīng ne . Yēhéhuá shuō , nǐmen dāng shàng qù , yīnwei míngrì wǒ bìjiāng tāmen jiāo zaì nǐmen shǒu zhōng .

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29 Yǐsèliè rén zaì jī bǐ yà de sìwéi shè xià fú bīng .

30 Dì sān rì , Yǐsèliè rén yòu shàng qù gōngjī Biànyǎmǐn rén , zaì jī bǐ yà qián bǎi zhèn , yǔ qián liǎng cì yíyàng .

31 Biànyǎmǐn rén yĕ chūlai yíng dí , jiù beì yǐnyòu lí chéng . zaì tiánjiān liǎng tiaó lù shàng , yī tōng Bótèlì , yī tōng jī bǐ yà , xiàng qián liǎng cì , dòngshǒu shā sǐ Yǐsèliè rén yuē yǒu sān shí gè .