Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 20:31

31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city , and they began to smite of the people, and kill as at other times , in the high-ways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field , about thirty men of Israel.

By the dissembled Flight of the Israelites.

With the same kind, though not the same degree of Success.

So called, to difference it from this Gibeah, which was upon an Hill; wherefore they are constantly said, to ascend or go up against it, as v. 23, 30. See Ios. 18. 24, 28.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. to sinite of the people wounded as at▪ &c.; O[illegible: 1+ letters], Bethel.