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But the sons of Israel said, "Let us flee that we may draw them away from the city to the highways."</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newcom.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/judges/20-32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcom/judges/20-32.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/">Commentaries</a> > Judges 20:32</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/20-31.htm" title="Judges 20:31">◄</a> Judges 20:32 <a href="../judges/20-33.htm" title="Judges 20:33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And the children of Benjamin said, They <i>are</i> smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/20.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/judges/20.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/judges/20.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/20.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/judges/20.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/judges/20.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/20.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/judges/20.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/judges/20.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/judges/20.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/20.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/20.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/judges/20.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/judges/20.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/judges/20.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/judges/16-20.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/judges/20.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/20.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/20.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/judges/20.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/judges/20.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/judges/20.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/20.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/judges/20.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/judges/20.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/20.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/20.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/judges/20.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/judges/20.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/judges/20.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/judges/20.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/20.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(32) <span class= "bld">Said, Let us flee</span>.—In a later historical style the <span class= "ital">plan </span>of the feigned flight would have been mentioned earlier.<p><span class= "bld">Unto the highways.</span>—This would have the double effect of allowing the ambuscade to cut off their retreat, and of dividing their forces at the point where the roads branched off.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/20.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/20.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>To the house of God - "To Bethel," as in the margin. On "Gibeah in the field," see <a href="/joshua/18-24.htm">Joshua 18:24</a> note. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/20.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Jud 20:29-48. They Destroy All the Benjamites, Except Six Hundred.<p>29-48. And Israel set liers-in-wait round about Gibeah—A plan was formed of taking that city by stratagem, similar to that employed in the capture of Ai [Jos 8:9].<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/20.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/20.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And the children of Benjamin said, they are smitten down before us, as at first,.... At the first battle, which gave them great spirit, and they concluded they should have victory, as before: <p>but the children of Israel said, let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways; pretending to be afraid of them, and not able to face them, and therefore made as if they fled through fear and cowardice, which inspired the Benjaminites with fresh ardour to pursue them closely, and so were drawn from the city to the highways, as expressed in the preceding verse. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/20.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And the children of Benjamin said, They <i>are</i> smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the <span class="cverse3">{p}</span> highways.</span><p>(p) Meaning, crossways or paths to various places.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/20.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 32.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And the children of Benjamin</span>, etc. This verse is parenthetical, being explanatory of the conduct of both parties. The Benjamites pursued recklessly, because they thought the fight was going as on the two previous days; the Israelites fled in order to draw them to the highways, and so to enable the ambushment to get between the Benjamite army and the city. Judges 20:32<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/20.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Then the Benjaminites supposed that Israel was beaten by them as before; but the Israelites said: We will flee, and draw it (the tribe of Benjamin) away from the town to the roads (the high-roads mentioned in <a href="/judges/20-31.htm">Judges 20:31</a>). 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