Judges 21:1
HAD SWORN: i.e. before the fighting of Judges 20.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAD SWORN: i.e. before the fighting of Judges 20.... [ Continue Reading ]
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". See note on Genesis 26:28. Benjamin is indeed, now, "a son of sorrow" (_Ben-oni,_. son of sorrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD GOD. _Jehovah Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFERED. Hebrew. _'alah_. App-43.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. CONGREGATION. military assembly.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. little children. Hebrew. _taph._ Compare Judges 13:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. male. Hebrew. _zakar._... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUNG VIRGINS. Hebrew young women, virgins. VIRGINS. Hebrew. _bethulah._ SHILOH. See note on Judges 18:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALL PEACEABLY. proclaim peace.... [ Continue Reading ]
A FEAST OF THE LORD. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "a feast to Jehovah". YEARLY. The three feasts had come down to one. Apostasy was the cause of all their internal disorders. NORTH SIDE, &C. Shiloh and the house of Jehovah were so neglected that these minute instructions wer... [ Continue Reading ]
DANCE IN DANCES. This is what "religion" had come to in those days of apostasy, by which we must judge it. MAN. Heb, _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THIS TIME, &C.: i.e. "at the time when ye would have incurred guilt [by so doing]".... [ Continue Reading ]
REPAIRED. rebuilt, or built up.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. All the evil follows as the result of the disobedience in Judges 1:27.... [ Continue Reading ]