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CHAPTER XXI
_The Israelites mourn because of the desolation of Benjamin, and_
_consult the Lord_, 1-4.
_They inquire who of Israel had not come to this war, as they had_
_vowed that those who woul...
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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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HAD SWORN: i.e. before the fighting of Judges 20....
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_had sworn in Mizpah_ Probably, like Jephthah's vow (Judges 11:30
_n._), a religious oath made at the sanctuary (Judges 20:1). This
solemn oath, which could neither be broken nor withdrawn, is an
esse...
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_THE PEOPLE BEWAIL THE DESOLATION OF BENJAMIN: THEY SEND TO
JABESH-GILEAD, AND DESTROY THE INHABITANTS, EXCEPT FOUR HUNDRED
VIRGINS, WHO ARE MARRIED TO SO MANY OF THE REMAINING BENJAMITES; THE
REST OF...
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_Mourning for Benjamin Judges 21:1-7_
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any
of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
2 And the people came to the house of God, a...
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_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....
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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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HAD SWORN] see on Judges 17:2. All the women and children in Benjamin
have been massacred: cp. Judges 21:16....
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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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HAD SWORN. — The circumstance has not been mentioned in the account
of the proceedings at Mizpeh. It is clear from the sequel (Judges
21:18) that the oath was not only an oath but “a vow under a
curse...
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וְ אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נִשְׁבַּ֥ע בַּ
† מִּצְפָּ֖ה...
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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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The other 11 tribes had sworn, perhaps rashly, they would not give
their daughters to the men of Benjamin.
With the war now ended, they went up to the house of God and wept.
They were concerned that a...
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Now the men of Israel had (a) sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not
any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
(a) This was a rash oath, and not from judgment: for they later broke
it, sho...
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Sworn, (juraverunt.) The mention of Maspha, seems to determine that
this oath was taken before the battle; though it would otherwise
appear, that the Israelites engaged themselves to extirpate the tri...
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CONTENTS
This Chapter, which concludes the book of the Judges, gives the
general conclusion also, of sin and its punishment in the sorrow and
anguish of spirit it induceth. We have in it, the account...
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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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NOW THE MEN OF ISRAEL HAD SWORN IN MIZPEH,.... Where they were there
convened, before the war began; after they had heard the account the
Levite gave of the affair, which brought them thither; and aft...
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Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any
of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
Ver. 1. _Now the men of Israel had sworn._] Rashly and uncharitably,
out of rage...
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_The men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh_ When they first assembled
there in the beginning of this war, after the whole tribe had espoused
the quarrel of the men of Gibeah. _Saying_ They do not here swe...
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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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The Expedition Against Jabesh-Gilead...
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Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, at the time of the great
assembly, Judges 20:1, when the embittered feeling against Benjamin
ran high, SAYING, THERE SHALL NOT ANY OF US GIVE HIS DAUGHTER UN...
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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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JUDGES CHAPTER 21 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin, JUDGES
21:1. The inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead, for not coming up to this
battle, are all destroyed, excepting four hundred damsels, whom...
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CHAPTER 21. PRESERVATION OF THE REMNANT OF BENJAMIN.
Judges 21:1
‘ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, ‘There shall
not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin to wife.'
This interes...
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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 21:1 The other tribes HAD SWORN AT MIZPAH that
NO ONE OF US SHALL GIVE HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE TO BENJAMIN (see...
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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 Samuel 14:24; 1 Samuel 14:28; 1 Samuel 14:29; Acts 23:12; Deu
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Had sworn — In the beginning of this war, after the whole tribe had
espoused the quarrel of the men of Gibeah. Saying — They do not here
swear the utter extirpation of the tribe, which fell out beyond...