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Gill's Exposition
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day,.... Not the day following the second battle, since it would take more time to go to Shiloh, and fast and offer…
Barnes' Notes
The stratagem described is exactly that by which Joshua took Ai (marginal reference).
We have here a full account of the complete victory which the Israelites obtained over the Benjamites in the third engagement: the righteous cause was victorious at last, when the managers of it…
Cambridge Bible
From the narrative A, which describes, not the two battles and Jehovah's direct interference (Jdg 20:20; Jdg 20:20; Jdg 20:20), but the stratagem by which the Israelites captured the city; cf. Jos…