Chapter 21:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Joshua Ruth
Judges 21
21:1 Now
the men of Israel had
a sworn in Mizpeh,
saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
(
a) This was a rash oath, and not from judgment:
for they later broke it, showing secretly the means to marry certain of their
daughters.
21:4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there
an
b altar, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings.
(
b) According to their custom, when they would
consult the Lord.
21:6 And the children of
Israel
c repented them for Benjamin
their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
(
c) Or, were sorry that they had destroyed their
brethren, as it appears in (
Judges
21:15).
21:8 And they said, What one
[is there] of the tribes of Israel that
d
came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from
Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
(
d) Condemning them as lovers of evil, who would
not punish it.
21:13
And the whole congregation
e sent [some]
to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call
peaceably unto them.
(
e) That is, about four months after the
punishment, (
Judges
20:47).
21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and
they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead:
and yet
f so they sufficed them not.
(
f) For they were short two hundred.
21:17
And they said, [There must be]
g an
inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed
out of Israel.
(
g) Benjamin must be preserved to have the
twelfth portion in the inheritance of Jacob.
21:19 Then they said,
Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is]
on the
h north side of Bethel, on the
east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south
of Lebonah.
(
h) He describes the place where the maids used
to dance yearly, and sing psalms and songs of God's works among them, as the
custom was then.
21:22
And it shall be,
i when their fathers or
their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be
favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife
in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be
guilty.
(
i) Though they attempted to convince man that
they had kept their oath, before God it was broken.
21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and
took [them] wives, according to their
k
number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto
their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
(
k) Meaning, two hundred.
Chapter 21:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Joshua Ruth
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Joshua
Judges
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