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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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_the elders of the congregation_ See on Judges 20:1, and cf. Leviticus
4:15. That this half of the verse does not belong to the old story is
further shewn by the reference to wives for the Benjamites...
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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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_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...
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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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HOW SHALL WE DO..._?_ — They want to keep their vow in the letter,
while they break it in the spirit. The sense of the binding nature of
the “ban” was intensely strong (Exodus 20:7; Ezekiel 17:18), bu...
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וַ יֹּֽאמְר֨וּ זִקְנֵ֣י הָ עֵדָ֔ה מַה
־נַּעֲש
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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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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...
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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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THEN THE ELDERS OF THE CONGREGATION SAID.... This being the case, that
there were not wives enough for them, they were obliged to consult
again, and consider of another expedient to provide for them;...
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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?
Ver. 16. _How shall we do for wives? &c._] Now all their care...
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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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FOR THEM THAT REMAIN; for the two hundred who are yet unprovided of
wives....
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Judges 21:16 elders H2205 congregation H5712 said H559 (H8799) do
H6213 (H8799) wives H802 remain H3498 ...
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‘ Then the elders of the congregation said, ‘How shall we do for
wives for those who remain seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?'
Compare Judges 21:7. The Ban had (in their view, but some m...
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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...