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Judges 21:16

the elders of the congregation See on Judges 20:1, and cf. Leviticus 4:15. That this half of the verse does not belong to the old story is further shewn by the reference to wives for the Benjamites who had not secured any of the 400 virgins from Jabesh; like the last words of Judges 21:14; Judges 21:16a is a harmonizing addition. 16b may well continue Judges 21:15 and belong to A.

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  • 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THE ELDERS OF THE CONGREGATION SAID, HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING THE WOMEN ARE DESTROYED OUT OF BENJAMIN?_ How shall we do for wives for them that remain. Though the...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOW SHALL WE DO..._?_ — They want to keep their vow in the letter, while they break it in the spirit. The sense of the binding nature of the “ban” was intensely strong (Exodus 20:7; Ezekiel 17:18), bu...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּֽאמְר֨וּ זִקְנֵ֣י הָ עֵדָ֔ה מַה ־נַּעֲש

  • 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

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    THEN THE ELDERS OF THE CONGREGATION SAID.... This being the case, that there were not wives enough for them, they were obliged to consult again, and consider of another expedient to provide for them;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? Ver. 16. _How shall we do for wives? &c._] Now all their care...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then the elders of the congregation said, in discussing other possibilities of securing wives for the remaining Benjamites, HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING THE WOMEN ARE DESTROY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WIVES FOR THE REMAINING BENJAMITES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH...

  • 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

    FOR THEM THAT REMAIN; for the two hundred who are yet unprovided of wives....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 21:16 elders H2205 congregation H5712 said H559 (H8799) do H6213 (H8799) wives H802 remain H3498 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ Then the elders of the congregation said, ‘How shall we do for wives for those who remain seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?' Compare Judges 21:7. The Ban had (in their view, but some m...

  • 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 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...

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