deliver: 2Sa 20:21, 2Sa 20:22 children of Belial: Jdg 19:22, Deu 13:13, 1Sa 30:22, 2Sa 20:1, 2Sa 23:6, 1Ki 21:13, 2Ch 13:7 put away: Deu 17:7, Deu 17:12, Deu 19:19, Deu 21:21, Deu 22:21, Deu 22:24, Deu 24:7, Ecc 11:10 would not: 1Sa 2:25, 2Ch 25:16, 2Ch 25:20, Pro 29:1, Hos 9:9, Hos 10:9, Rom 1:32, Rev 18:4, Rev 18:5, The conduct of the Israelites was very equitable in this demand; but perhaps the rulers or elders of Gibeah ought previously to have been applied to, to deliver up the criminals to justice. However, the refusal of the Benjamites, and their protection of those who had committed this horrible wickedness, because they were of their own tribe, prove them to have been deeply corrupted, and - all their advantages consideredas ripe for divine vengeance as the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah had been. Confiding in their own valour and military skill, they seen to have first prepared for battle in this unequal contest with such superior numbers.