And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
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Gill's Exposition
And all the people arose as one man,.... Either the heads of the people assembled in council, all agreed unanimously in one vote or resolution, or all the 400,000 men were of the same mind, when the…
Barnes' Notes
They bound themselves not to break up and disperse until they had punished the wickedness of Gibeah.
Here is, I. A general meeting of all the congregation of Israel to examine the matter concerning the Levite's concubine, and to consider what was to be done upon it, Jdg 20:1, Jdg 20:2. It does not…
Cambridge Bible
tent As the parallelism shews, equivalent to house, cf. Jdg 19:9 mg., 1Ki 8:66; Psa 132:3 tent of my house; a survival from the time when the Israelites actually lived in tents. The resolution is…
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