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Verse Judges 21:25. _IN THOSE DAYS_ THERE WAS _NO KING IN ISRAEL_]
Let no one suppose that the sacred writer, by relating the atrocities
in this and the preceding chapters, justifies the actions them...
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The repetition of this characteristic phrase (compare Judges 17:6;
Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1) is probably intended to impress upon us the
idea that these disorders arose from the want of a sufficient
a...
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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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NO KING. Note the structural arrangement of the four occurrences of
this expression. See note on Judges 18:1.
DID. did continually. This is the Divine summing up of the whole book,
by way of Epilogue...
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_there was no king in Israel_ Cf. Judges 17:6 _n._A suitable
transition to the history of Samuel which relates the beginning of the
monarchy....
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DISCOURSE: 277
THE BENJAMITES’ WICKEDNESS
Judges 21:25. _In those days there was no king in Israel: every man
did that which was right in his own eyes_.
SUCH is the depravity of human nature, that ma...
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IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL, &C.— The sacred writer,
no doubt, repeats this observation to account for the disorders and
enormities mentioned in the four preceding Chapter s, which, as t...
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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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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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IN THOSE DAYS... This verse, already occurring in Judges 17:6; Judges
18:1; Judges 19:1, is here added once more by way of apology for the
lawless crimes, terrible disasters, evaded vows, and unhallow...
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בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם אֵ֥ין מֶ֖לֶךְ...
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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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REFLECTIONS
May a gracious God, be pleased to follow up his own blessed designs,
in recording the sad relations of Israel in this book, to, make both
the Writer, and Reader of this Commentary upon it,...
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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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IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL,.... No supreme magistrate,
Joshua being dead, and as yet no judge in Israel had risen up; for all
related in the five last Chapter s of this book were done b...
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In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which
was] right in his own eyes.
Ver. 25. _In those days, &c._] See Judges 17:6 .
_ Every man did that which was right._] _Quod sibi...
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_In those days there was no king in Israel_ There were elders, (Judges
21:16,) who had some authority, and there was a high-priest, (Judges
20:28,) but there was no supreme governor, such as Moses and...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 21:25 days H3117 king H4428 Israel H3478 everyone H376 did
H6213 (H8799) right H3477 eyes H5869...
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‘ In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did what was
right in his own eyes.'
The writer was clearly disillusioned. Even in this matter of Benjamin
the people had stooped to subterfuge a...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 21:25__ The final editorial comment echoes
earlier ones (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1;...
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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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Deuteronomy 12:8; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judge
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Right in his own eyes — What wonder was it then, if all wickedness
overflowed the land? Blessed be God for magistracy!...