This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”
We may observe in these verses, I. The ardent zeal which the Israelites had expressed against the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, as it was countenanced by the tribe of Benjamin. Occasion is here given to mention two instances of their zeal on this occasion, which we did not meet with before: - 1.
Commenting on Judges 21:1-15
And this is the thing that ye shall do,.... Which they gave them in charge to execute: ye shall utterly destroy every male; without any reserve, young or old, married or unmarried: and every woman that hath lain by man; whether lawfully or unlawfully, in a married or unmarried state.
Jdg 21:10-12 To punish this unlawful conduct, the congregation sent 12,000 brave fighting men against Jabesh, with orders to smite the inhabitants of the town with the edge of the sword, together with their wives, and children, but also with the more precise instructions (Jdg 21:11), “to ban all the men, and women who had known the lying with man” (i.e., to slay them as...
Commenting on Judges 21:10-12