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Verse Judges 21:19. _THERE IS A FEAST OF THE LORD_] What this feast
was is not known: it might be either the passover, pentecost, or the
feast of tabernacles, or indeed some other peculiar to this pl...
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The Feast was probably the Passover, or one of the three great Jewish
Feasts. In these unsettled times men went up to Shiloh (Seilun) only
once a year 1 Samuel 1:3 instead of thrice; only the males ke...
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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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A FEAST OF THE LORD. Some codices, with two early printed editions,
read "a feast to Jehovah".
YEARLY. The three feasts had come down to one. Apostasy was the cause
of all their internal disorders.
N...
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_there is a feast_ THE _feast_(marg.). The word rendered
_feast_(_ḥag_) strictly implies a pilgrimage to a sanctuary; the
three chief _ḥaggim_were festivals at which every male Israelite was
required...
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BEHOLD, THERE IS A FEAST OF THE LORD IN SHILOH YEARLY— The three
great festivals were always to be held in the place where God fixed
his habitation, which was now at Shiloh. Some have supposed, that 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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_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...
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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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SHECHEM] see on Judges 9:1. LEBONAH] 3 m. NW. of Shiloh. Shiloh thus
lies off the main road, and soon loses its early importance....
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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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A FEAST OF THE LORD IN SHILOH. — It is unlikely that the reference
is to a local feast; but it is impossible to say which of the three
yearly feasts is meant. The most natural would be the Feast of
Ta...
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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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Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh
yearly [in a place] which [is] on the (h) north side of Bethel, on the
east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, a...
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Counsel, among themselves. (Haydock) --- Solemnity. It is not known
which is meant, as all the three great festivals occurred during the
time that the vines were covered with leaves; (ver. 20) or this...
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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 THEY SAID,.... Some of the elders that sat in council debating
this matter, and considering of ways and means to assist their
brethren the Benjaminites, and preserve their tribe from being lost:...
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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 o...
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_A feast_ Probably it was the feast of tabernacles, which they
celebrated with more than ordinary joy. And that feast was the only
season at which the Jewish virgins were allowed to dance. But even
th...
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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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Then they said, as an expedient was finally suggested to them, BEHOLD,
THERE IS A FEAST OF THE LORD IN SHILOH YEARLY, year after year, IN A
PLACE WHICH IS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF BETHEL, ON THE EAST SIDE...
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WIVES FOR THE REMAINING BENJAMITES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH...
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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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YEARLY:
_ Heb._ from year to year
EAST SIDE:
Or, towards the sun rising
OF:
Or, on...
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YEARLY; on the three solemn feasts, in which they used some honest and
holy recreations; among which dancing was one, EXODUS 15:20 1 SAMUEL
18:6 2 SAMUEL 6:14; and probably it was the feast of taberna...
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Judges 21:19 said H559 (H8799) yearly H3117 H3117 feast H2282 LORD
H3068 Shiloh H7887 north H6828 Bethel...
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‘ And they said, ‘Look there is a feast of Yahweh from year to
year in Shiloh', which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of
the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the South o...
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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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Deuteronomy 16:1; Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 16:13; Exodus 23:14;...
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A feast — Probably it was the feast of tabernacles, which they
celebrated with more than ordinary joy. And that feast was the only
season, at which the Jewish virgins were allowed to dance. But even
t...