Jabes was between Pella and Gerasa, upon a mountain, east of the Jordan. It was after its destruction rebuilt, (Calmet) and became very famous, (1 Kings xi.; Menochius) if it was indeed ever demolished. We know not what prevented the inhabitants from joining in common cause. (Haydock)
Verse Judges 21:8. _THERE CAME NONE TO THE CAMP FROM JABESH-GILEAD_] As they had sworn to destroy those who would not assist in this war, Judges 21:5, they determined to destroy the men of Jabesh, an...
JABESH-GALEAD - Is here mentioned for the first time. (See marginal references.) The name of Jabesh survives only in the Wady Yabes (running down to the east bank of the Jordan), near the head of whic...
CHAPTER 21 THE REPENTANCE ABOUT BENJAMIN _ 1. Sorrow of the people and Jabesh-Gilead smitten (Judges 21:1)_ 2. The restoration of Benjamin (Judges 21:16) A tribe of the nation was almost entirely ex...
JUDES 21. BENJAMIN SAVED FROM EXTINCTION. Two versions of this story have been editorially combined. The second is evidently the older. It was stated that the children of Israel came together as one m...
_Jabesh-gilead_ This ancient city, Jabesh of G., is only mentioned again in connexion with the history of Saul, 1Sa 11:1 ff; 1 Samuel 31:11 ff., 2 Samuel 2:5 f., Judges 21:12 f. The name survives in t...
_Wives for the Benjamites Judges 21:8-25_ 8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead...
_AND THEY SAID, WHAT ONE IS THERE OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL THAT CAME NOT UP TO MIZPEH TO THE LORD? AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME NONE TO THE CAMP FROM JABESH-GILEAD TO THE ASSEMBLY._ THERE CAME NONE TO THE C...
JABESH-GILEAD] i.e. Jabesh in Gilead; cp. 1 Samuel 11; 1 Samuel 31:11. Probably about 10 m. SE. of Beth-shean or Beisan....
THE MIGRATIONS OF THE DANITES, AND THE FEUD BETWEEN BENJAMIN AND THE OTHER TRIBES (JUDGES 17-21) This concluding section is really an appendix. Instead of describing a further deliverance, it recounts...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 21 V1 *Israel’s men had made this serious promise to the *Lord at Mizpah. ‘We will not allow our daughters to marry a man from Benjamin’s *tribe.’ V...
THERE CAME NONE TO THE CAMP FROM JABESH-GILEAD. — Jabesh-Gilead, which Josephus calls the metropolis of Gilead (_Antt. vi._ 5, § 1), is probably to be identified with the ruins now called El-Deir in t...
וַ יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מִ֗י אֶחָד֙ מִ שִּׁבְטֵ֣י יִשׂ
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
Uninstructed zeal, even in the cause of righteousness, often goes beyond its proper limits. The terrible carnage continued until not above six hundred men of the tribe of Benjamin were left. Another o...
The other 11 tribes had sworn, perhaps rashly, they would not give their daughters to the men of Benjamin. With the war now ended, they went up to the house of God and wept. They were concerned that a...
And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that (d) came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly. (d) Condemning them...
It should seem, that the vengeance taken of the men of Jabesh-gilead, was more with an eye to provide in this manner wives for Benjamin, than to punish them, for not coming up against Gibeah....
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21. The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of the...
AND THEY SAID, WHAT ONE IS THERE OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL THAT CAME NOT UP TO MIZPEH TO THE LORD?.... This is asked not only to bring them to justice, and put them to death, according to their oath, wh...
And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly. Ver. 8. _There came none...
1 The people bewaile the desolation of Beniamin. 8 By the destruction of Iabesh Gilead they prouide them foure hundred wiues. 16 They aduise them to surprise the virgines that daunced at Shiloh. 1...
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that come not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, when they made careful inquiry, a thing which they had neglected to do in their first indi...
The Expedition Against Jabesh-Gilead...
TWO FOOLISH OATHS AND FOOLISH ACTIONS (vv. 1-14) God had not told Israel to totally destroy Benjamin, including women and children, but Israel had done this except for the 600 men hiding in the Rock...
A city in Gilead, and in the tribe of Manasseh; of which see 1 SAMUEL 11:1,3,9, &c.; 1 SAMUEL 31:11, &c....
Judges 21:8 said H559 (H8799) one H259 tribes H7626 Israel H3478 up H5927 (H8804) Mizpah H4709 LORD...
‘And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh, to Mizpah?” And lo, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly. For when the people were nu...
CONTENTS: Mourning for the lost tribe of Benjamin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: There may be overdoing in well doing. Great care must be taken in the government of our zeal, for even necessary justic...
Judges 21:4. _Built there an altar,_ in Mizpeh. This altar had long existed. Exodus 38:1. Altars were erected in many places: Samuel, David, and Elijah officiated at those altars. Yea, more; the Lord'...
_The men of Israel had sworn._ AN UNREASONABLE OATH 1. It was an oath that flowed from rash rage rather than from real zeal. Men must swear in judgment (Jeremiah 4:2), not when transported with pass...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 21:1 The other tribes HAD SWORN AT MIZPAH that NO ONE OF US SHALL GIVE HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE TO BENJAMIN (see...
A GREAT CALAMITY PREVENTED (Judges 21:1.) _HOMILETICS_ 1. _Zeal is always right in denouncing sin_. It would have showed a lamentable lack of the reverence due to the God of Israel, if such a hideo...
Now, these men [in chapter twenty-one, had made an oath] they had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin for a wife (Judges 21:1). These Benjamites do these...
1 Samuel 11:1; 1 Samuel 31:11; 2 Samuel 2:5; 2 Samuel 2:6...