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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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_cut off cut_ DOWN; the figure is that of _hewing down_trees, cf.
Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 14:12....
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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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_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REPENTED THEM FOR BENJAMIN THEIR BROTHER,
AND SAID, THERE IS ONE TRIBE CUT OFF FROM ISRAEL THIS DAY._
There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day - i:e., in danger of...
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REPENTED THEM] see on Judges 2:18.
7-25. The Benjamites provided with wives....
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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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וַ יִּנָּֽחֲמוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
אֶל ־בִּנְיָמִ֖ן...
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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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And the children of Israel (c) repented them for Benjamin their
brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
(c) Or, were sorry that they had destroyed their brethren, as it
ap...
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_Say. Governors should use great discretion, and correct with justice
and mercy. (St. Gregory 1. ep. 24.) (Worthington)_...
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The importance of preserving a tribe, of the twelve Tribes of Israel,
was an object, to which all Israel had regard. Perhaps the thing was
from the Lord. So important is it, that even the New Jerusale...
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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 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REPENTED THEM FOR BENJAMIN THEIR
BROTHER,.... Not that they went to war with them, as if their cause
was not good; but for the severity they had exercised towards them,
espe...
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And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother,
and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Ver. 6. _And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin._] But
w...
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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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And the children of Israel (had) REPENTED THEM, they had been filled
with deep sympathy and care for the rebuilding of the tribe of
Benjamin, FOR BENJAMIN, THEIR BROTHER, AND SAID, THERE IS ONE TRIBE...
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The Expedition Against Jabesh-Gilead...
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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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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REPENTED THEM; not for the war, which was just, and
necessary, and good; but for their immoderate severity in the
execution of it, and for thee dreadful consequences of it....
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‘ And the children of Israel repented because of what they had done
to Benjamin their brother, and said, ‘There is one tribe cut off
from Israel this day.'
Their musings from one subject to another w...
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REPENTED
(_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
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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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2 Samuel 2:26; Hosea 11:8; Judges 11:35; Judges 20:23; Judges 21:15;...
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Repented — Not for the war, which was just and necessary, but for
their immoderate severity in the execution of it. That is no good
divinity which swallows up humanity. Even necessary justice is to be...