SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:32
Y los hijos de Benjamín decían: Vencidos son delante de nosotros, como antes. Mas los hijos de Israel decían: Huiremos, y los alejaremos de la ciudad hasta los caminos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:32
Verse 32. Let us-draw them from the city] They had two reasons for this: 1. They had placed an ambuscade behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as the Benjamites had left it. 2. It would seem that the slingers, by being within the city and its fortifications, had great advantage against the Israelites by their slings, whom they could not annoy with their swords, unless they got them to the plain country.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 32. And the children of Benjamin said, they are smitten down before us, as at first , etc.] At the first battle, which gave them great spirit, and they concluded they should have victory, as before: but the children of Israel said, let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways ; pretending to be afraid of them, and not able to face them, and therefore made as if they fled through fear and cowardice, which inspired the Benjaminites with fresh ardour to pursue them closely, and so were drawn from the city to the highways, as expressed in the preceding verse.
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
ויאמרו 559 בני 1121 בנימן 1144 נגפים 5062 הם 1992 לפנינו 6440 כבראשׁנה 7223 ובני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 אמרו 559 ננוסה 5127 ונתקנהו 5423 מן 4480 העיר 5892 אל 413 המסלות׃ 4546
