Shìshījì 20:42

42 Tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián zhuǎn shēn wǎng kuàngyĕ taópǎo . Yǐsèliè rén zaì hòumian zhuī shā . nà cóng gè chéng lǐ chūlai de , yĕ dōu jiá gōng shā miè tāmen .

Shìshījì 20:42 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:42

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel,
&c.] And fled from them:

unto the way of the wilderness;
what wilderness is not certain, perhaps the wilderness of Judah; they did not turn directly back towards Gibeah, perceiving that was taken, and in the hands of a body of men that would meet them, and therefore they turned on one side towards the wilderness, if happily they could make their escape thither, and shelter themselves:

but the battle overtook them;
that is, they that made war, as the Targum, the Israelites that were engaged in battle with them pursued them, and overtook them:

and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of
them;
either the Israelites that came out of their cities to assist their brethren destroyed the Benjaminites as they fled, or the Benjaminites who came out of other cities to Gibeah, these were destroyed in the midst of it with the inhabitants, by the liers in wait, when they entered it.

Shìshījì 20:42 In-Context

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 .

41 Yǐsèliè rén yòu zhuǎn shēn huí lái , Biànyǎmǐn rén jiù shén jīng huáng , yīnwei kànjian zāihuò líndào zìjǐ le .

42 Tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián zhuǎn shēn wǎng kuàngyĕ taópǎo . Yǐsèliè rén zaì hòumian zhuī shā . nà cóng gè chéng lǐ chūlai de , yĕ dōu jiá gōng shā miè tāmen .

43 Yǐsèliè rén wéirǎo Biànyǎmǐn rén , zhuīgǎn tāmen , zaì tāmen xiē jiǎo zhī chù , duì zhe rì chū zhī dì de jī bǐ yà jiàntà tāmen .

44 Biànyǎmǐn rén sǐ le de yǒu yī wàn bā qiā , dōu shì yǒng shì .