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Jueces 20:33

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33 De pronto, los israelitas cambiaron de táctica y presentaron batalla en Baal Tamar, y los israelitas que estaban emboscados salieron a atacar al oeste[a] de Guibeá.

Jueces 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. I.
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Jueces 20:33 In-Context

31 Los de Benjamín salieron a su encuentro, y se vieron obligados a alejarse de la ciudad. Comenzaron a causar bajas entre los israelitas, como en las ocasiones anteriores, y alcanzaron a matar a unos treinta hombres en el campo abierto y por el camino que lleva a Betel, y también por el que lleva a Guibeá.
32 Los benjaminitas decían: «Los estamos derrotando como antes», pero los israelitas decían: «Huyamos, para que se alejen de la ciudad hasta los caminos».
33 De pronto, los israelitas cambiaron de táctica y presentaron batalla en Baal Tamar, y los israelitas que estaban emboscados salieron a atacar al oeste de Guibeá.
34 Diez mil de los mejores guerreros de Israel lanzaron un ataque frontal contra Guibeá, y fue tan intenso el combate que los benjaminitas no se dieron cuenta de que la calamidad se les venía encima.
35 El SEÑOR derrotó a Benjamín delante de Israel, y aquel día los israelitas mataron a veinticinco mil cien hombres de la tribu de Benjamín, todos ellos armados con espadas.

Footnotes 1

  • [a] "oeste " (mss. de LXX y Vulgata); palabra de difícil traducción.
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