Judges 21:9
What meaning of the judges 21:9 in the Bible?
What does Judges 21:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there."
What does Judges 21:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there."
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...
_were numbered_ Cf. Judges 20:15; Judges 20:17....
_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...
_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 recount...
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...
FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED. — It is doubtful whether this implies another numbering besides that at Mizpeh (Judges 20:1). In the tale which had then been made up, the absence of inhabitants of a sin...
וַ יִּתְפָּקֵ֖ד הָ עָ֑ם וְ הִנֵּ֤ה אֵֽין ־שָׁם֙ אִ֔ישׁ מִ יֹּושְׁבֵ֖י יָבֵ֥שׁ גִּלְעָֽד׃...
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 THESE last Chapter s describe a general and vehement outburst of moral indignation throughout Israel, reco...
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...
The other 11 tribes had sworn, perhaps rashly, they would not give their daughters to the men of Benjamin. With the war now ended, they went up to the house of God and wept. They were concerned that...
It should seem, that the vengeance taken of the men of Jabesh-gilead, was more with an eye to provide in this manner wives for Benjamin, than to punish them, for not coming up against Gibeah....
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...
FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED,.... To know who did come up, and who did not, and particularly to know whether the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead did or not, against whom an information was brought: AND,...
For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there. Ver. 9. _For the people were numbered, and, behold, &c._] God will one day send out summonses fo...
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...
The Expedition Against Jabesh-Gilead...
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 Roc...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 21:9 people H5971 counted H6485 (H8691) one H376 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Gilead H3003 H1568...
‘And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh, to Mizpah?” And lo, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly. For when the people were nu...
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 justi...
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 21:1 The other tribes HAD SWORN AT MIZPAH that NO ONE OF US SHALL GIVE HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE TO BENJAMIN (see Judges 20:1). Now, regretting that their oath could result in the...
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...