Judges 20:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

Ten thousand

Judges 20:29

Knew not

General references

Matthew 24:39

Bible References

Ten thousand

So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Knew not

When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah. But he did not realize men were hiding behind the city.

They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare -- just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.

Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

"But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

Now when they are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

General references

And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.