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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...
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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...
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_were numbered_ Cf. Judges 20:15; Judges 20:17....
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_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...
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_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE
INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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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...
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FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED. — It is doubtful whether this implies
another numbering besides that at Mizpeh (Judges 20:1). In the tale
which had then been made up, the absence of inhabitants of a sin...
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וַ יִּתְפָּקֵ֖ד הָ עָ֑ם וְ הִנֵּ֤ה
אֵֽין
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED,.... To know who did come up, and who did
not, and particularly to know whether the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead
did or not, against whom an information was brought:
AND,...
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For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were] none of the
inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Ver. 9. _For the people were numbered, and, behold, &c._] God will
one day send out summonses fo...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 21:9 people H5971 counted H6485 (H8691) one H376 inhabitants
H3427 (H8802) Gilead H3003 H1568...
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‘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...
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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...
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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'...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...