SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:13
Entregad, pues, ahora aquellos hombres, hijos de Belial, que están en Gabaa, para que los matemos, y barramos el mal de Israel. Mas los de Benjamín no quisieron oír la voz de sus hermanos los hijos de Israel;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:13
Verse 13. Deliver us the men] Nothing could be fairer than this. They wish only to make the murderers answerable for their guilt. Benjamin would not hearken] Thus making their whole tribe partakers of the guilt of the men of Gibeah. By not delivering up those bad men, they in effect said: "We will stand by them in what they have done, and would have acted the same part had we been present." This proves that the whole tribe was excessively depraved.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. Now, therefore, deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah , etc.] Those wicked men that were the authors of that abominable wickedness there committed: that we may put them to death ; as they deserved, since they were guilty both of adultery and murder; their meaning is, that they in conjunction with the tribe of Benjamin might condemn them to death and punish them with it, as their crime deserved: and put away evil from Israel ; prevent both the spread of such a sinful evil in the nation, encouraged by such examples, and the evil of punishment coming upon them from God, should they let such wickedness pass with impunity: but the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel ; they refused to give up the men of Gibeah, that had been guilty of such great wickedness; reckoning it a reproach, as Josephus says, to obey the commands of others, for fear of war, and unwilling to yield to any in arms, neither on account of multitude nor courage.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The tribe of Benjamin nearly extirpated.
--The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, an their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they forme their resolves with too much haste and self-confidence. The eterna ruin of souls will be worse, and more fearful, than these desolation of a tribe __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ועתה 6258 תנו 5414 את 853 האנשׁים 376 בני 1121 בליעל 1100 אשׁר 834 בגבעה 1390 ונמיתם 4191 ונבערה 1197 רעה 7451 מישׂראל 3478 ולא 3808 אבו 14 בנימן 1144 לשׁמע 8085 בקול 6963 אחיהם 251 בני 1121 ישׂראל׃ 3478
