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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...
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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...
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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;...
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_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...
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_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE
INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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וְ הָ עָ֥ם נִחָ֖ם לְ בִנְיָמִ֑ן כִּֽי
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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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...
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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...
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_Sorry, and. Hebrew, "for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach
in Israel." (Calmet)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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WIVES FOR THE REMAINING BENJAMITES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Judges 21:15 people H5971 grieved H5162 (H8737) Benjamin H1144 LORD
H3068 made H6213 (H8804) void H6556 tribes...
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‘ 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...
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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...
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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'...
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_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...
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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...
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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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1 Chronicles 13:11; 1 Chronicles 15:13; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 58:12;...
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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....