King James Version
“Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising . with ease: or, from Menuchah, etc over: Heb. unto over against”
Judges 20:43 · KJV
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them. was come: Heb. touched them
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising . with ease: or, from Menuchah, etc over: Heb. unto over against
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thus they inclosed”
H3803to enclose; hence (in a friendly sense) to crown, (in a hostile one) to besiege; also to wait (as restraining oneself)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
binjamin, youngest son of jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
“and chased”
H7291to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
“with ease”
H4496repose or (adverbially) peacefully; figuratively, consolation (specifically, matrimony); hence (concretely) an abode
“them and trode them down”
H1869to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“over against”
H5227properly, the front part; used adverbially (especially with preposition), opposite, in front of, forward, in behalf of
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e., (architectural) a notched battlement
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