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Verse Judges 21:14. _YET SO THEY SUFFICED THEM NOT._] There were six
hundred men at Rimmon, and all the young women they saved from Jabesh
were only four hundred; therefore, there were two hundred sti...
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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...
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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...
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_and yet so they sufficed them not_ i.e. the 400 virgins were not
sufficient for the 600 Benjamite survivors; a prosaic attempt to
harmonize with the old story in Judges 21:15, as though the rape at
S...
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_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...
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_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE
INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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 recounts...
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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...
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CAME AGAIN — i.e., returned to their desolate towns.
YET SO THEY SUFFICED THEM NOT. — There would still be 200 Benjamites
left without wives....
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וַ יָּ֤שָׁב בִּנְיָמִן֙ בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ...
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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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...
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Two hundred men still remained of Benjamin who had no wives. Because
of the oath at Mizpah, the men could not give them any wives. However,
they did advise them to come up at the next annual feast at...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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AND BENJAMIN CAME AGAIN AT THAT TIME,.... The six hundred Benjaminites
returned with the messengers at the same time to the people of Israel,
putting confidence in the assurances they had given them o...
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And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which
they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they
sufficed them not.
Ver. 14. _And Benjamin came again at that ti...
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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...
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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 Rock...
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BENJAMIN; the poor remainders of the tribe of Benjamin....
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Judges 21:14 Benjamin H1144 back H7725 (H8799) time H6256 gave H5414
(H8799) women H802 alive H2421 ...
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‘And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of
Benjamin who were in the Rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women wh...
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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 justic...
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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'...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 7:2; Judges 20:47; Judges 21:12...