King James Version
Judges 20:29 in the King James Version says “And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.” — study this verse from Judges chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.”
Judges 20:29 · KJV
And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God , and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. to smite: Heb. to smite of the people wounded as at, etc the house: or, Bethel
KJV Study — Public Domain
“set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“And Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“round about”
H5439(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
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