Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Judges 21:21
Verse Judges 21:21. And catch you every man his wife] That is, Let each man of the two hundred Benjamites seize and carry off a woman, whom he is, from that hour, to consider as his wife.
Verse Judges 21:21. And catch you every man his wife] That is, Let each man of the two hundred Benjamites seize and carry off a woman, whom he is, from that hour, to consider as his wife.
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...
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....
_to dance in the dances_ For the religious dance on occasions of joy cf. Exodus 32:19; 2 Samuel 6:14; Psalms 149:3; Psalms 150:4. catch you
_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...
_AND SEE, AND, BEHOLD, IF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH COME OUT TO DANCE IN DANCES, THEN COME YE OUT OF THE VINEYARDS, AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN HIS WIFE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH, AND GO TO THE LAND OF BEN...
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...
TO DANCE] see on Judges 9:27 also 2 Samuel 6:14. The act, like the whole feast, was regarded as religious. 22. No clear sense can be obtained from the Heb. The general meaning must be, 'allow the men...
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...
וּ רְאִיתֶ֗ם וְ֠ הִנֵּה אִם ־יֵ֨צְא֥וּ בְנֹות
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...
To dance; not in a lascivious manner, as a certain heretical interpreter would have it, but out of a religious motive. (Menochius) --- Such dances were formerly very common among all nations. The Ther...
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 SEE, AND, BEHOLD, IF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH COME OUT TO DANCE IN DANCES,.... As they used to do at this festival, not along with men, but by themselves; and so might the more easily be taken and...
_And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Ben...
_Daughters of Shiloh_ By whom we may understand not those only who were born or settled inhabitants there, but all those who were come thither upon this occasion, and for a time sojourned there: for a...
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 see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, at the designated time, probably the festival of the Passover, THEN COME YE OUT OF THE VINEYARDS, AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN...
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...
THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH; by whom he may possibly understand not those only who were born or settled inhabitants there, (as many conceive,) but all those who were come thither upon this occasion, and f...
‘ And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, ‘Go and lie in wait in the vineyards. And watch, and behold if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then you come out of the...
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 Samuel 18:6; 2 Samuel 6:14; 2 Samuel 6:21; Ecclesiastes 3:4; E
Daughters of Shiloh — By whom we may understand not those only who were born or settled inhabitants there, but all those who were come thither upon this occasion, and for a time sojourned there: for a...