Giudici 20:33

33 E tutti gli uomini d’Israele abbandonarono la loro posizione e si disposero in ordine di battaglia a Baal-Thamar, e l’imboscata d’Israele si slanciò fuori dal luogo ove si trovava, da Maareh-Ghibea.

Giudici 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.

Giudici 20:33 In-Context

31 E i figliuoli di Beniamino, avendo fatto una sortita contro il popolo, si lasciarono attirare lungi dalla città, e cominciarono a colpire e ad uccidere, come le altre volte, alcuni del popolo d’Israele, per le strade, delle quali una sale a Bethel, e l’altra a Ghibea per la campagna: ne uccisero circa trenta.

32 Allora i figliuoli di Beniamino dissero: "Eccoli sconfitti davanti a noi come la prima volta!" Ma i figliuoli d’Israele dissero: "Fuggiamo, e attiriamoli lungi dalla città sulle strade maestre!"

33 E tutti gli uomini d’Israele abbandonarono la loro posizione e si disposero in ordine di battaglia a Baal-Thamar, e l’imboscata d’Israele si slanciò fuori dal luogo ove si trovava, da Maareh-Ghibea.

34 Diecimila uomini scelti in tutto Israele giunsero davanti a Ghibea. Il combattimento fu aspro, e i Beniaminiti non si avvedevano del disastro che stava per colpirli.

35 E l’Eterno sconfisse Beniamino davanti ad Israele; e i figliuoli d’Israele uccisero quel giorno venticinquemila e cento uomini di Beniamino, tutti atti a trar la spada.