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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Judges 21:7

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, whence and how could wives be provided for them, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? These two factors, that of the oath and that of the possible non-appearance of some part of the tribes, having been set forth, the author continues his narrative.

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See also Judges 21:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 21:7. _HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM_] From this it appears that they had destroyed all the Benjamitish _women_ and children! They had set out with the purpose of exterminating the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _wives for them that remain_ Cf. the parallel version in Judges 21:16....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Mourning for Benjamin Judges 21:1-7_ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 2 And the people came to the house of God, a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING WE HAVE SWORN BY THE LORD THAT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM OF OUR DAUGHTERS TO WIVES?_ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־נַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לָהֶ֛ם לַ † נֹּותָרִ֖ים לְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In general. Hebrew, "by the Lord," with an imprecation, ver. 18. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN,.... By which it seems, as well as by what is after related, that they knew of the six hundred men hid in the rock Rimmon: SEEING WE HAVE SWORN BY THE L...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? Ver. 7. _How shall we do for wives? &c._] All this difficulty, s...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 21:7 do H6213 (H8799) wives H802 remain H3498 (H8737) sworn H7650 (H8738) LORD H3068 give...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give of our daughters to be their wives.?' They had decided on mercy for the six hundred holed up in t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 14:28; 1 Samuel 14:29; 1 Samuel 14:45; Judges 21:1; Judges

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