Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Judges 21:2
The people came to the house of God; partly to mourn for the common loss, and partly to ask counsel from God about the repairing of it.
The people came to the house of God; partly to mourn for the common loss, and partly to ask counsel from God about the repairing of it.
Verse Judges 21:2. _THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD_] Literally, _the_ _people came_ בית־אל to Bethel; this is considered as the name of a _place_ by the Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Septuagint....
TO THE HOUSE OF GOD - It should be, “to Bethel.” See Judges 20:18....
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...
THE HOUSE OF GOD. Probably Shiloh, Compare Judges 21:12 with Judges 18:31. GOD. Hebrew. _ha-'Elohim,_ "the [true] God". App-4. WEPT SORE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), "wept. great weeping"....
_came to Beth-el_ The characteristics of the B narrative reappear in this chapter: the resort to Beth-el _till even_cf. Judges 20:18; Judges 20:26; the weeping, intensified each time, cf. Judges 20:23...
_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...
_AND THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND ABODE THERE TILL EVEN BEFORE GOD, AND LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES, AND WEPT SORE;_ The people ... lifted up their voices, and wept. The characteristic ficklen...
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...
HOUSE OF GOD] RV 'Bethel,' as in Judges 20:26; Judges 20:31....
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...
TO THE HOUSE OF GOD. — Rather, _to Bethel,_ as in Judges 20:18; Judges 20:27. WEPT SORE. — As after their defeat (Judges 20:26); but this time they were remorseful for the fate of those whom they were...
וַ יָּבֹ֤א הָ עָם֙ בֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל וַ יֵּ֤שְׁבוּ
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...
_Silo. Hebrew simply, "to Bethel," as chap. xx. 18. Septuagint (Alexandrian), "to Maspha and Bethel." (Haydock)_...
It is pleasing to remark, that though at this time, the interests of Religion appeared at so low an ebb; yet, the ordinances of worship were still kept up at Shiloh....
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 THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD,.... Not to the city Bethel, as the Targum, Septuagint, and other versions, but to Shiloh, where were the tabernacle and ark; and this is to be understood of th...
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; Ver. 2. _And the people came to the house of God._] That is, To Shiloh, for t...
_And lift up their voices and wept sore_ Some days after their fury was over, and they coolly considered what they had done in the heat of war, their joy and triumph for their victory were turned into...
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 the people, after the close of the war of vengeance, CAME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD, to Bethel, where the Ark of the Covenant remained till the end of the campaign, AND ABODE THERE TILL EVEN BEFORE GOD,...
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...
Judges 21:2 people H5971 came H935 (H8799) house H1004 God H430 (H8677) H1008 remained H3427 ...
‘ And the people came to Bethel and sat there until the evening before God, and lifted up their voices and wept grievously.' Having carried out their dreadful massacre the people suddenly realised th...
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 30:4; Genesis 27:38; Joshua 18:1; Judges 2:4; Judges 20:18;...