Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 21:15
The Lord, &c. — The Benjamites were the only authors of the sin, but God was the chief author of the punishment, and the Israelites were but his executioners.
The Lord, &c. — The Benjamites were the only authors of the sin, but God was the chief author of the punishment, and the Israelites were but his executioners.
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...
From the A narrative; sequel of Judges 21:1. _had made a breach_ Cf. 2 Samuel 6:8; 2 Samuel 5:20 and Exodus 19:22;...
_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...
_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
THE LORD HAD MADE A BREACH. — The breach (_perets,_ 1 Kings 11:24) had been caused by their own headstrong fury and unreasoning passion, even though it had been in a righteous cause; but in the Hebrew...
וְ הָ עָ֥ם נִחָ֖ם לְ בִנְיָמִ֑ן כִּֽי
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...
Two hundred men still remained of Benjamin who had no wives. Because of the oath at Mizpah, the men could not give them any wives. However, they did advise them to come up at the next annual feast at...
_Sorry, and. Hebrew, "for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in Israel." (Calmet)_...
I pass over the whole here recorded, to bring the sum, and substance into one point of view; it affords a melancholy picture, take it altogether, very humbling to our nature, and sadly descriptive of...
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 REPENTED THEM FOR BENJAMIN,.... That they had destroyed all their women, and that they had saved no more of the daughters of Jabeshgilead, not a sufficient number to be wives to the Ben...
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. Ver. 15. _And the people repented them for Benjamin._] Being very sorry that they were cons...
_The Lord had made a breach_, &c. The Benjamites were the only authors of the sin, but God was the author of the punishment, who employed the Israelites as his executioners to inflict it. They, howeve...
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...
WIVES FOR THE REMAINING BENJAMITES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH...
And the people repented them, they were again filled with anxious care, FOR BENJAMIN, BECAUSE THAT THE LORD HAD MADE A BREACH IN THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, since this one tribe had been almost exterminated...
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...
THE PEOPLE REPENTED THEM FOR BENJAMIN; were yet more grieved upon this unhappy disappointment, for they supposed here would have been wives sufficient for them. The Lord had made a breach; the Benjami...
Judges 21:15 people H5971 grieved H5162 (H8737) Benjamin H1144 LORD H3068 made H6213 (H8804) void H6556 tribes...
‘ And the people repented themselves for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.' All that was done was in the end thought of as done by Yahweh, for He was the God of the c...
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...
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 Chronicles 13:11; 1 Chronicles 15:13; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 58:12;...