1. Judges 20:8 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

How does the focus in the text shift?

Judges 20:8 (ESV)

8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.

As the Levite exits the stage never to be heard from again, the attention from now on is on the assembly and its actions. They take action, first against Gibeah (Judges 20:8–11), and then against Benjamin (Judges 20:12–13). 1

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