Shìshījì 20:38

38 Yǐsèliè rén yùxiān tóng fú bīng yuēdéng zaì chéng neì fàng huǒ , yǐ yān qì shàng téng wèi hào .

Shìshījì 20:38 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:38

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and
the liers in wait
Or an appointed time ^F26 as the Targum; so Kimchi and Abarbinel. There was a time fixed, at which the men of Israel proposed to be at Baaltamar, exactly when the Benjaminites would be drawn at a proper distance from the city, and then the liers in wait were to break forth, and rush upon it, and enter it:

and that they should make a great flame with smoke to rise up out of
the city;
set it on fire, and cause the fire to burn fiercely, that there might be a large ascent of flame and smoke to be seen afar off; which, when the men of Israel saw, they would know the city was taken.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (dewmh) "tempus constitutum", Panginus, Montanus, Junius et Tremellius, Piscator.

Shìshījì 20:38 In-Context

36 Yúshì Biànyǎmǐn rén zhīdào zìjǐ baì le . xiān shì Yǐsèliè rén . yīnwei kào zhe zaì jī bǐ yà qián suǒ shè de fú bīng , jiù zaì Biànyǎmǐn rén miànqián sǎo baì .

37 Fú bīng jímáng chuǎng jìn jī bǐ yà , yòng dāo shā sǐ quán chéng de rén .

38 Yǐsèliè rén yùxiān tóng fú bīng yuēdéng zaì chéng neì fàng huǒ , yǐ yān qì shàng téng wèi hào .

39 Yǐsèliè rén lín tuì zhèn de shíhou , Biànyǎmǐn rén dòngshǒu shā sǐ Yǐsèliè rén , yuē yǒu sān shí gè , jiù shuō , tāmen réng xiàng qián cì beì wǒmen shā baì le .

40 Dāng yān qì rú zhù cóng chéng zhōng shàng téng de shíhou , Biànyǎmǐn rén huí tóu guānkàn , jiàn quán chéng de yān qì chōng tiān .