Shìshījì 20:14

14 Biànyǎmǐn rén cóng tāmende gè chéng lǐ chūlai , jùjí dào le jī bǐ yà , yào yǔ Yǐsèliè rén dǎzhàng .

Shìshījì 20:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:14

But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out
of the cities unto Gibeah
To protect and defend it against the other tribes, being a city of theirs and where the persons charged with the crime lived; these got together thither out of the several cities of the tribe of Benjamin, as many as could bear arms:

to go out to battle against the children of Israel;
they neither denied the fact, nor attempted to palliate and excuse it, nor sought for peace but at once betook themselves to arms; which showed not only want of prudence but pride, passion and self-confidence, and that they were sadly depraved in their morals to rise up in defence of such wicked men; and a strange infatuation to expect success against such vastly superior numbers, and in so bad a cause.

Shìshījì 20:14 In-Context

12 Yǐsèliè zhòng zhīpaì dǎfa rén qù , wèn Biànyǎmǐn zhīpaì de gè jiā shuō , nǐmen zhōngjiān zĕnme zuò le zhèyàng de è shì ne .

13 Xiànzaì nǐmen yào jiāng jī bǐ yà de nàxiē fĕi tú jiāo chūlai , wǒmen hǎo zhìsǐ tāmen , cóng Yǐsèliè zhōng chúdiào zhè è . Biànyǎmǐn rén què bù kĕn tīng cóng tāmen dìxiōng Yǐsèliè rén de huà .

14 Biànyǎmǐn rén cóng tāmende gè chéng lǐ chūlai , jùjí dào le jī bǐ yà , yào yǔ Yǐsèliè rén dǎzhàng .

15 Nàshí Biànyǎmǐn rén cóng gè chéng lǐ diǎn chū ná dāo de , gòng yǒu èr wàn liù qiā . Lìngwaì hái yǒu jī bǐ yà rén diǎn chū qī bǎi jīng bīng .

16 Zaì zhòng jūn zhī zhōng yǒu jiǎnxuǎn de qī bǎi jīng bīng , dōu shì zuǒshǒu biàn lì de , néng yòng jī xián shuǎi shí dá rén , haó fā bù chāi .