C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on Judges 20:4-7

Jdg 20:4-7

Then the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, described the whole affair. הגּבעה בּעלי, the owners or citizens of Gibeah (see at Jdg 9:2). “Me they intended to kill:” the Levite draws this conclusion from what had happened to his wife; the men of Gibeah had not expressed any such intention in Jdg 19:22. “All the country (lit. field) of the inheritance of Israel,” i.e., all the land of the Israelites. זמּה is applied to the vice of lewdness, as in Lev 18:17, which was to be punished with death. וגו לכם הבוּ, “give yourselves (לכם asdat. comm.) word and counsel here,” i.e., make up your minds and pass sentence (vid., 2Sa 16:20). הלם, here, where you are all assembled together.