Judges 21:1
_NOW THE MEN OF ISRAEL HAD SWORN IN MIZPEH, SAYING, THERE SHALL NOT ANY OF US GIVE HIS DAUGHTER UNTO BENJAMIN TO WIFE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE MEN OF ISRAEL HAD SWORN IN MIZPEH, SAYING, THERE SHALL NOT ANY OF US GIVE HIS DAUGHTER UNTO BENJAMIN TO WIFE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND ABODE THERE TILL EVEN BEFORE GOD, AND LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES, AND WEPT SORE;_ The people ... lifted up their voices, and wept. The characteristic fickleness of the Israelites was not long in being displayed; because scarcely had they cooled from the fie... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAID, O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHY IS THIS COME TO PASS IN ISRAEL, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TO DAY ONE TRIBE LACKING IN ISRAEL?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REPENTED THEM FOR BENJAMIN THEIR BROTHER, AND SAID, THERE IS ONE TRIBE CUT OFF FROM ISRAEL THIS DAY._ There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day - i:e., in danger of becoming extinct; for, as it appears from Judges 21:7, they had massacred all the women and children... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING WE HAVE SWORN BY THE LORD THAT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM OF OUR DAUGHTERS TO WIVES?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 TO THE ASSEMBLY._ THERE CAME NONE TO THE CAMP FROM JABESH-GILEAD TO THE ASSEMBLY. This city lay within the territory of Eastern Manasseh, abou... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE ELDERS OF THE CONGREGATION SAID, HOW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING THE WOMEN ARE DESTROYED OUT OF BENJAMIN?_ How shall we do for wives for them that remain. Though the young women of Jabesh-gilead had been carefully spared, the supply was found inadequate, and some ot... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID, THERE MUST BE AN INHERITANCE FOR THEM THAT BE ESCAPED OF BENJAMIN, THAT A TRIBE BE NOT DESTROYED OUT OF ISRAEL._ There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin. Since they were the only rightful owners of the territory, provision must be made for transmitting it t... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOWBEIT WE MAY NOT GIVE THEM WIVES OF OUR DAUGHTERS: FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE SWORN, SAYING, CURSED BE HE THAT GIVETH A WIFE TO BENJAMIN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THEY SAID, BEHOLD, THERE IS A FEAST OF THE LORD IN SHILOH YEARLY IN A PLACE WHICH IS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF BETHEL, ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY THAT GOETH UP FROM BETHEL TO SHECHEM, AND ON THE SOUTH OF LEBONAH._ On the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem. The exac... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THEY COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN, SAYING, GO AND LIE IN WAIT IN THE VINEYARDS;_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SEE, AND, BEHOLD, IF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH COME OUT TO DANCE IN DANCES, THEN COME YE OUT OF THE VINEYARDS, AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN HIS WIFE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH, AND GO TO THE LAND OF BENJAMIN._ Daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances. The dance was anciently a part of the relig... [ Continue Reading ]