John Gill's Exposition on Judges 20:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, etc.] To protect and defend it against the other tribes, being a city of theirs and where the persons charged with the crime lived; these got together thither out of the several cities of the tribe of Benjamin, as many as could bear arms: to go out to battle against the children of Israel; they neither denied the fact, nor attempted to palliate and excuse it, nor sought for peace but at once betook themselves to arms; which showed not only want of prudence but pride, passion and self-confidence, and that they were sadly depraved in their morals to rise up in defence of such wicked men; and a strange infatuation to expect success against such vastly superior numbers, and in so bad a cause.

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