SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:23
Y los hijos de Israel subieron, y lloraron delante del SEÑOR hasta la tarde, y consultaron con el SEÑOR, diciendo: ¿Volveré a pelear con los hijos de Benjamín mi hermano? Y el SEÑOR les respondió: Subid contra él.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:23
Verse 23. Go up against him.] It appears most evident that the Israelites did not seek the protection of God. They trusted in the goodness of their cause and in the multitude of their army. God humbled them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and showed them that the race was not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even , etc.] The evening of the day in which the battle was fought; not that the whole army went up to Shiloh to the house of God there, but a deputation of them, who lamented their defeat, and the loss of so many lives, but not their sins and transgressions, and particularly the idolatry they had been guilty of: and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, shall we go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother ? they seemed to have some doubt, by the loss they sustained, whether they were right in going to war with Benjamin, especially as he was their brother; and therefore the question now is, not who should go up first, which was already determined, but whether they should go at all; and still they do not ask any help of God in battle, nor success, but were depending on their numbers, and the justness of their cause, and therefore neither is promised to them, only they have an answer to their question: and the Lord said, go up against him ; for Benjamin was certainly in the wrong, and therefore the Israelites are directed to go against him, and they also were not sufficiently chastised, nor thoroughly humbled.
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
ויעלו 5927 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 ויבכו 1058 לפני 6440 יהוה 3068 עד 5704 הערב 6153 וישׁאלו 7592 ביהוה 3068 לאמר 559 האוסיף 3254 לגשׁת 5066 למלחמה 4421 עם 5973 בני 1121 בנימן 1144 אחי 251 ויאמר 559 יהוה 3068 עלו 5927 אליו׃ 413
