King James Version
Judges 20:30 in the King James Version says “And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array agains...” — study this verse from Judges chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Judges 20:30 · KJV
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
And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“went up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“And the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“And the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Benjamin”
H1144binjamin, youngest son of jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
“day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“on the third”
H7992third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
“and put themselves in array”
H6186to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
“as at other times”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
“as at other times”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
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