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Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
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A Coordinated Signal
Commentators explain that the "great cloud of smoke" was a carefully coordinated military signal. The ambush party was to set the city on fire, creating a large, visible column of smoke. This beacon would inform the main Israelite army, which had lured the Benjamite forces away, that the ambush had succeeded and the city was taken.
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19th Century
Anglican
The signal that had been agreed upon.
That they should make. —Literally, multiply to cause to ascend. The actual w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in waitOr an …
Presbyterian
The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolv…
