Shìshījì 20:33

33 Yǐsèliè zhòngrén dōu qǐlai , zaì bā lì Tāmǎ bǎi zhèn , Yǐsèliè de fú bīng cóng mǎ lì Jiābā máifu de dìfang chōng shàng qián qù .

Shìshījì 20:33 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:33

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place
The main body of the army, which fled before Benjamin, when they were come to a proper place, stopped, and rose up out of it, and stood in their own defence:

and put themselves in array at Baaltamar;
drew up in a line of battle at that place, facing their enemies, in order to engage with them: this place the Targum calls the plains of Jericho, that being the city of palm trees, which Tamar signifies; and so Jarchi interprets it; but these are too far off; it must be some place near Gibeah. Jerom ^F23 speaks of a little village in his time in those parts, called Bethamari, and may be thought to be this same place; perhaps in the times of the old Canaanites here was a grove of palm trees, in which Baal was worshipped, from whence it had its name:

and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even
out of the meadows of Gibeah;
or plain of Gibeah, as the Targum; for as the city was built on a hill, at the bottom of it were a plain and fine meadows of grass, and here an ambush was placed at some little distance from the city; and when the army of the Benjaminites were drawn off from it, in pursuit of Israel, these came forth and placed themselves between them and the city.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. I.

Shìshījì 20:33 In-Context

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 .

32 Biànyǎmǐn rén shuō , tāmen réngjiù baì zaì wǒmen miànqián . dàn Yǐsèliè rén shuō , wǒmen bù rú taópǎo , yǐnyòu tāmen líkāi chéng dào lù shàng lái .

33 Yǐsèliè zhòngrén dōu qǐlai , zaì bā lì Tāmǎ bǎi zhèn , Yǐsèliè de fú bīng cóng mǎ lì Jiābā máifu de dìfang chōng shàng qián qù .

34 Yǒu Yǐsèliè rén zhōng de yī wàn jīng bīng , lái dào jī bǐ yà qián jiē zhàn , shì paì shén shì xiōngmĕng . Biànyǎmǐn rén què bù zhīdào zāihuò línjìn le .

35 Yēhéhuá shǐ Yǐsèliè rén shā baì Biànyǎmǐn rén . nà rì , Yǐsèliè rén shā sǐ Biànyǎmǐn rén èr wàn wǔ qiā yī bǎi , dōu shì ná dāo de .