By lot - To determine who should go up first (Judges 20:18). The shape of the ground probably made it impossible for the whole f…

We will go up by lot against it. —The English Version follows the Septuagint and other versions in supplying "we will…

But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah ,
&c.] Where the fact was done; what follows was proposed…

The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolv…