--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Then. These chapters (20, 21), hy Figure of speech Hysterologia , describe events which took place soon after Joshua" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/judges/20" --- **Then.** These chapters (20, 21), hy Figure of speech *Hysterologia* , describe events which took place soon after Joshua's death. See notes on [Judges 18:1](../../../kjv/judges/18/1) with [Judges 19:1](../../../kjv/judges/19/1) . **children** = sons. **as one man.** All this excitement, unanimity, and bloodshed about an injury done to a woman; no sense of the evil of idolatry and sin against God, recorded in [Judges 19](../../../kjv/judges/19) . **God.** Hebrew. *ha* - *'Elohim* = the [true] God. App-14 . See note on [Judges 18:31](../../../kjv/judges/18/31) . **Now.** Note the Figure of speech *Parenthesis* in this verse. App-6 . Mizpeh on the south-west border of Benjamin, not Mizpeh on the east of Jordan ([Judges 10:17](../../../kjv/judges/10/17) ; [Judges 11:11](../../../kjv/judges/11/11) , [Judges 11:29](../../../kjv/judges/11/29) ). **wickedness.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 . **the Levite.** Hebrew = "the man, the Levite". **men** = masters or head-men. for the house of God was in Shiloh ([Judges 18:31](../../../kjv/judges/18/31) ), also the camp of Israel ([Judges 21:12](../../../kjv/judges/21/12) ). **lefthanded.** Hebrew lame, or bound, in his right hand. **hair breadth** = a hair. No *Ellipsis,* omit "breadth". **miss.** Hebrew. *chata'.* See App-44 . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **And.** Note the Figure of speech *Parenthesis.* App-6 . **before the LORD.** At Shiloh ([Judges 18:31](../../../kjv/judges/18/31) ). **asked counsel.** By Phinehas, with Urim and Thummim. Compare [Judges 20:28](../../../kjv/judges/20/28) , and see notes on [Exodus 28:30](../../../kjv/exodus/28/30) . [Numbers 26:55](../../../kjv/numbers/26/55) . **offered** = offered up. See App-43 . **Phinehas.** The grandson of Aaron, the contemporary of Jonathan the grandson of Moses ([Judges 18:30](../../../kjv/judges/18/30) ). This is the only mention of the high priest throughout the book. **Aaron.** Some codices, with Syriac, add "the priest". **coasts** = borders. **no such deed done.** "The days of Giheah"became proverbial. Compare [Hosea 9:9](../../../kjv/hosea/9/9) ; [Hosea 10:9](../../../kjv/hosea/10/9) . **the house of God** = Beth-el Here it denotes Beth-el. One of the three cities mentioned. **meadows.** Probably = forest. **trusted.** Confided or placed hope in. Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 . **drew themselves along** = marched forward. **the city** = the whole city, or holocaust of the city. **over against** = as far as over against. **six hundred.** Compare [Judges 21:13](../../../kjv/judges/21/13) . **the men** = every one. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/judges/20#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 20"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/judges/20#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/judges/20","name":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 20","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/judges/20#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Then. 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