Judges Chapter 20 verse 27 Holy Bible

ASV Judges 20:27

And the children of Israel asked of Jehovah (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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BBE Judges 20:27

And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,
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DARBY Judges 20:27

And the people of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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KJV Judges 20:27

And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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WBT Judges 20:27

And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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WEB Judges 20:27

The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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YLT Judges 20:27

And the sons of Israel ask of Jehovah, -- and there `is' the ark of the covenant of God in those days,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Enquired of the Lord. In the Hebrew, Asked the Lord, as in vers. 18, 23. For the ark of the covenant, etc. A most important statement, defining the time of these occurrences, within the lifetime of Phinehas, and also giving a strong intimation that the writer of these words lived after the tabernacle had been removed from Shiloh and its neighbourhood to Jerusalem. Was there. Where? The natural answer to be given is, At Bethel; for Bethel is the only place that has been named. But it is not in accordance with the other intimations given us concerning the tabernacle, that Bethel should be its resting-place under the high priesthood of Phinehas. In Joshua 18:1 we have the formal pitching of the tabernacle of the congregation at Shiloh; in Joshua 22:12 we find it there, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest before it; in 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 2:14; 1 Samuel 3:21; 1 Samuel 4:3, we find it settled there till taken by the Philistines; and in Psalm 78:60 we find Shiloh described as the abode of the tabernacle till its capture by the Philistines, and there is no hint anywhere of Bethel or any other place having been the resting-place of the ark before it fell into the hands of the Philistines. Neither, again, is the explanation of some commentators, that the words the ark... was there in those days implies "that the ark of the covenant was only temporarily at Bethel," at all satisfactory. In those days has naturally a much wider and broader application, like the expression (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1), In those days there was no king in Israel, and contrasts the time of Phinehas and the judges with the times of the monarchy, when the ark and the high priest were at Jerusalem. Unless, therefore, we understand Bethel in vers. 18, 26, 31 to mean the house of God, which seems quite impossible, we must interpret the word there to mean Shiloh, and suppose that the writer took no count of the temporary removal to Bethel for the convenience of consultation, but considered that it was at Shiloh in one sense, though momentarily it was a few miles off. Possibly too in the fuller narrative, of which we have here the abridgment, the name of Shiloh was mentioned as that to which there referred.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Enquired of the Lord--i.e., of Jehovah, as in Judges 20:23. On the occasion of their first general inquiry (Judges 20:18) it is said that they "enquired of Elohim," but it is impossible to draw any certain inferences from this change of expression. It is clear, however, that the nation had been thoroughly and beneficially humiliated by these two terrible reverses, and that their approach to Jehovah on this occasion was far more solemn and devout than it had been at first.Was there--i.e., at Bethel, though Bethel has not been mentioned in the English Version, owing to the erroneous rendering of the name by "House of God" in Judges 20:18-26.