Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 21:25
Right in his own eyes — What wonder was it then, if all wickedness overflowed the land? Blessed be God for magistracy!
Right in his own eyes — What wonder was it then, if all wickedness overflowed the land? Blessed be God for magistracy!
Verse Judges 21:25. _IN THOSE DAYS_ THERE WAS _NO KING IN ISRAEL_] Let no one suppose that the sacred writer, by relating the atrocities in this and the preceding chapters, justifies the actions them...
The repetition of this characteristic phrase (compare Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1) is probably intended to impress upon us the idea that these disorders arose from the want of a sufficient a...
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...
NO KING. Note the structural arrangement of the four occurrences of this expression. See note on Judges 18:1. DID. did continually. This is the Divine summing up of the whole book, by way of Epilogue...
_there was no king in Israel_ Cf. Judges 17:6 _n._A suitable transition to the history of Samuel which relates the beginning of the monarchy....
DISCOURSE: 277 THE BENJAMITES’ WICKEDNESS Judges 21:25. _In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes_. SUCH is the depravity of human nature, that ma...
IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL, &C.— The sacred writer, no doubt, repeats this observation to account for the disorders and enormities mentioned in the four preceding Chapter s, which, as 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...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS... This verse, already occurring in Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1, is here added once more by way of apology for the lawless crimes, terrible disasters, evaded vows, and unhallow...
בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם אֵ֥ין מֶ֖לֶךְ...
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...
REFLECTIONS May a gracious God, be pleased to follow up his own blessed designs, in recording the sad relations of Israel in this book, to, make both the Writer, and Reader of this Commentary upon it,...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL,.... No supreme magistrate, Joshua being dead, and as yet no judge in Israel had risen up; for all related in the five last Chapter s of this book were done b...
In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes. Ver. 25. _In those days, &c._] See Judges 17:6 . _ Every man did that which was right._] _Quod sibi...
_In those days there was no king in Israel_ There were elders, (Judges 21:16,) who had some authority, and there was a high-priest, (Judges 20:28,) but there was no supreme governor, such as Moses and...
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...
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes, a notice once more inserted by the author, in order to intimate that such things would probably not have...
WIVES FOR THE REMAINING BENJAMITES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 21:25 days H3117 king H4428 Israel H3478 everyone H376 did H6213 (H8799) right H3477 eyes H5869...
‘ In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did what was right in his own eyes.' The writer was clearly disillusioned. Even in this matter of Benjamin the people had stooped to subterfuge a...
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 21:25__ The final editorial comment echoes earlier ones (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1;...
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...
Deuteronomy 12:8; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judge