Judg 20:1

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Judg 20:1 The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.

Judg 20:8 The decree of the assembly.

Judg 20:12 The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites.

Judg 20:18 The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand.

Judg 20:26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred.

Then all.

Judg 20:2; Judg 20:8; Judg 20:11; Judg 21:5; Deut 13:12-18; Josh 22:12

as one man.

1Sam 11:7; 1Sam 11:8; 2Sam 19:14; Ezra 3:1; Neh 8:1

from Dan.

Judg 18:29; 1Sam 3:20; 2Sam 3:10; 2Sam 24:2; 1Chr 21:2; 2Chr 30:5

with the.

Num 32:1; Num 32:40; Josh 17:1; 2Sam 2:9

unto the.

Judg 20:18; Judg 20:26; Judg 11:11

in Mizpeh.

Judg 10:17; Judg 11:11; Josh 15:38; Josh 18:26; 1Sam 7:5; 1Sam 7:6; 1Sam 10:17; 2Kgs 25:23

It does not appear that the Israelites on this occasion, were summoned by the authority of any one common head, but they came together by the consent and agreement, as it were, of one common heart, fired with a holy zeal for the honour of God and Israel.

The place of their meeting was Mizpeh; they gathered together unto the Lord there; for Mizpeh was so very near to Shiloh, that their encampment might very well be supposed to reach from Mizpeh to Shiloh.

Shiloh was a small town, and therefore, when there was a general meeting of the people to present themselves before God, they chose Mizpeh for their head quarters, which was the next adjoining city of note; perhaps, because they were not willing to give that trouble to Shiloh, which so great an assembly would occasion; it being the residence of the priests that attended the tabernacle.