{"id":7100,"date":"2022-09-24T01:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-judges-2037\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T01:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:56:48","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-judges-2037","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-judges-2037\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 20:37"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 37<\/strong>. <em> hasted and rushed<\/em> ] as did the ambush at Ai, <span class='bible'>Jos 8:19<\/span>; but the words are different. See <span class='bible'>Jdg 9:33<\/span> <em> n.<\/p>\n<p> drew themselves along<\/em> ] Cf. <span class='bible'>Jdg 4:6<\/span>. But the massacre of the inhabitants anticipates the signal; the destruction of the city does not begin till the smoke is seen to rise. This half of the verse appears to be a gloss on cl. a, added by some reader who wanted to make <em> rushed upon Gibeah<\/em> more explicit.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Drew themselves along, <\/B>or, <I>extended themselves<\/I>, i.e. whereas before they lay close and contracted into a narrow compass, now they spread themselves, and marched in rank and file, as armies do. Or, <I>marched<\/I> or <I>went<\/I>, Heb. <I>drew their feet<\/I>. So this verb is oft, used, as <span class='bible'>Gen 37:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Exo 12:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jdg 4:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Job 21:33<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And the liers in wait hasted<\/strong>,&#8230;. When the time was come agreed upon for them to rise out of their ambush:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and rushed upon Gibeah<\/strong>; at unawares, with great force and violence entered the city, and took possession of it; or &#8220;extended&#8221; x, or spread themselves unto it; before they lay close in a narrow compass, but now they put themselves in a regular order, and marched rank and file, and reached from the meadows in which they were, <span class='bible'>Jud 20:33<\/span>, to the city:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and the liers in wait drew themselves along<\/strong>; along the city, in every part of it, spread themselves all over it, and made themselves masters of every corner of it; or &#8220;made a long sound&#8221; y with a trumpet, protracted that to a great length, which was done to terrify the inhabitants, or to let the Israelites know they were possessed of the city:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and smote all the city with the edge of the sword<\/strong>; old men, women, and children, who were not able to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>x  &#8220;extenderunt se&#8221;, Tigurine version. y  &#8220;pertraxerunt buccinae sonitum&#8221;, Paguninus; so Jarchi and Limchi.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(37) Results of the ambuscade. (Comp. <span class='bible'>Jos. 8:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jos. 8:19-20<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drew themselves along.<\/strong>The marginal suggestion, <em>made a long sound with the trumpet, <\/em>is untenable (See <span class='bible'>Jdg. 4:6<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>With The edge of the sword.<\/strong>See <span class='bible'>Jdg. 1:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jos. 8:24<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 37<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Drew themselves along <\/strong> That is, <em> marched forward, <\/em> advanced; or, as we often say, <em> drew on; <\/em> not, as margin, <em> made a long sound with the trumpets.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> &lsquo;<\/strong> And the liers in wait acted speedily, and rushed on Gibeah, and the liers in wait drew (or &lsquo;extended&rsquo;) themselves along and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.&rsquo; <\/p>\n<p><strong> &ldquo;Drew themselves along&rdquo;<\/strong> may describe some tactic used. It may mean extended themselves along so as to attack over a wide range. This would make it more difficult for slingers. Or it may refer to what they did on entering the city, spreading out to slay all the inhabitants they could find. Whatever it was their tactics were successful. <\/p>\n<p> The weakly defended city, with only one fighting unit available, was unable to stem the onset and succumbed, and all were put to the sword for they were seen as sharing the guilt of Gibeah. They were subject to The Ban, total extermination, for working folly in Israel, as with Achan and his family (<span class='bible'>Jos 7:15<\/span>). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Jdg 20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 37. <strong> And the liers in wait hasted.<\/strong> ] Here the business is more particularly related by the parts and circumstances, that God may be the more acknowledged, and people instructed that forbearance is no quittance. There will be a later reckoning with sinners, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>drew themselves along = marched forward. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>the liers in wait hasted: Jos 8:19 <\/p>\n<p>drew themselves along: or, made a long sound with the trumpets, Exo 19:13, Jos 6:5<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. 37. hasted and rushed ] as did the ambush at Ai, Jos 8:19; but the words are different. See Jdg 9:33 n. drew themselves along ] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-judges-2037\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 20:37&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}