Judges 21:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. ”

Judges 21:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 on...
Judges 21:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Judges 21:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 reco...
Judges 21:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 H...
Judges 21:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 20:1-48 ; Judges 21:1-25 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1-30 ; Judges 20:1-48 ; Judges 21:1-25 THESE last Chapter s describe a general and vehement outburst of moral indign...
Judges 21:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Judges 21:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Judges 21:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the people repented them for Benjamin ,.... That they had destroyed all their women, and that they had saved no more of the daughters of Jabeshgilead, not a sufficient number to be wives to the...
Judges 21:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 co...
Judges 21:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, h...
Judges 21:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Judges 21:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentation for the Benjamites; Wives Provided for the Benjamites. B. C. 1409. 1 Now the...
Judges 21:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 Benj...
Judges 21:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ 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...
Judges 21:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

A GREAT CALAMITY PREVENTED ( Judges 21:1-25 .) 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...
Judges 21:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Judges 21:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Judges 21:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 extermina...
Judges 21:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 13:11 ; 1 Chronicles 15:13 ; Isaiah 30:13 ; Isaiah 58:12 ; Judges 21:17 ; Judges 21:6
Judges 21:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Judges 21:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 21:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 21:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 21:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 21:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 21:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 21:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 21:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 21:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 21:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 21:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 21:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 21:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 21:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 21:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 21:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 21:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 21:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 21:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 21:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 21:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes