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Benjamin's Defiant Absence
Commentators like Gill and Ellicott agree that the tribe of Benjamin was not absent by accident. They likely received the same summons as the other tribes but deliberately ignored it. This refusal was possibly due to pride, a desire to protect their own guilty members, or a gross underestimation of the other tribes' resolve.
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Charles Ellicott
On Judges 20:3
19th Century
Bishop
Heard. —Probably the Benjamites had received the same summons as the other tribes (), but insolently refused to notice the summons…
John Gill
On Judges 20:3
17th Century
Pastor
Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel
were gone up to Mizpeh
…
Matthew Henry
On Judges 20:1–48
17th Century
Minister
The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolv…