1 Chronicles 13:11; 1 Chronicles 15:13; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 58:12; Judges 21:17; Judges 21:6
Judes 21. Benjamin Saved from Extinction. Two versions of this story have been editorially combined. The second is evidently the older. It was stat...
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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. In...
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 tho...
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 descri...
Uninstructed zeal, even in the cause of righteousness, often goes beyond its proper limits. The terrible carnage continued until not above six hundre...
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, ver...
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 Jabeshg...
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...
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 Isr...
TWO FOOLISH OATHS AND FOOLISH ACTIONS (vv. 1-14) God had not told Israel to totally destroy Benjamin, including women and children, but Israel h...
Lamentation for the Benjamites; Wives Provided for the Benjamites. B. C. 1409....
The people repented them for Benjamin; were yet more grieved upon this unhappy disappointment, for they supposed here would have been wives suffici...
‘ 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 th...
A GREAT CALAMITY PREVENTED ( Judges 21:1-25 .) HOMILETICS 1. Zeal is always right in denouncing sin . It would have showed a lamentable lack o...
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...
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 ju...
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 Israe...
Wives for the Remaining Benjamites from the Daughters of Shiloh
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 hi...
15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.