Take Care of Home Base
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Judges 20:33-48. For context, we’ll start at verse 29.
Judges 20:29-48 (NIV)
29 Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.
30 They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.
31 The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads–the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
On verses 33-48: The Benjamites made this mistake: they were so intent on defeating the Israelites that they directed all or most of their soldiers out of their home base of Gibeah and into the open field, leaving their own city of Gibeah vulnerable. Little did the Benjamites know that the Israelites had other troops waiting for the city of Gibeah to be left alone so that the Israelites could ambush it from different directions. This would lead to the Benjamites losing both their city as well as the war they were fighting outside of it.