Shofetim 20:29

29 And Yisroel set an ambush in wait round about Giv’ah.

Shofetim 20:29 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:29

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
] For though they were assured of success and victory, yet they thought proper to make use of means: and though their numbers were very great, they had recourse to art and stratagem, and set an ambush in divers places, much in like manner as Israel did for the men of Ai; the two cases being pretty much similar; this ambush was set in the night, as Josephus says ^F19,

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2.) sect. 11.

Shofetim 20:29 In-Context

27 And the Bnei Yisroel inquired of Hashem, (for the Aron Brit HaElohim was there in those days,

28 And Pinchas ben Eleazar ben Aharon stood ministering before it in those yamim,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the Bnei Binyamin achi, or shall I cease? And Hashem said, Go up; for makhar (tomorrow) I will deliver them into thine yad.

29 And Yisroel set an ambush in wait round about Giv’ah.

30 And the Bnei Yisroel went up against the Bnei Binyamin on the Yom HaShelishi, and put themselves in array against Giv’ah, as before.

31 And the Bnei Binyamin went out against HaAm, and were drawn away from the Ir; and they began to inflict casualties on HaAm, as at other times, in the sadeh and on the roads, of which one road goeth up to Beit-El, and the other road to Giv’ah, killing about sheloshim ish b’Yisroel.