SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:29
Y puso Israel emboscadas alrededor de Gabaa.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:29
Verse 29. Israel set liers in wait] Though God had promised them success, they knew they could expect it only in the use of the proper means. They used all prudent precaution, and employed all their military skill.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 29. And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah .] For though they were assured of success and victory, yet they thought proper to make use of means: and though their numbers were very great, they had recourse to art and stratagem, and set an ambush in divers places, much in like manner as Israel did for the men of Ai; the two cases being pretty much similar; this ambush was set in the night, as Josephus says f425 , Ver. 30 . And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day , etc.] Not the day following the second battle, since it would take more time to go to Shiloh, and fast and offer sacrifices there, but on the third day from the second battle: and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times ; as they had done on the first and second days of battle.
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
וישׂם 7760 ישׂראל 3478 ארבים 693 אל 413 הגבעה 1390 סביב׃ 5439
