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Verse Judges 21:21. _AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN HIS WIFE_] That is, Let
each man of the two hundred Benjamites seize and carry off a _woman_,
whom he is, from that hour, to consider as his _wife_....
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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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_to dance in the dances_ For the religious dance on occasions of joy
cf. Exodus 32:19; 2 Samuel 6:14; Psalms 149:3; Psalms 150:4.
catch you
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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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_AND SEE, AND, BEHOLD, IF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH COME OUT TO DANCE IN
DANCES, THEN COME YE OUT OF THE VINEYARDS, AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN HIS
WIFE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH, AND GO TO THE LAND OF BEN...
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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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TO DANCE] see on Judges 9:27 also 2 Samuel 6:14. The act, like the
whole feast, was regarded as religious.
22. No clear sense can be obtained from the Heb. The general meaning
must be, 'allow the men...
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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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וּ רְאִיתֶ֗ם וְ֠ הִנֵּה אִם
־יֵ֨צְא֥וּ בְנֹות
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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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To dance; not in a lascivious manner, as a certain heretical
interpreter would have it, but out of a religious motive. (Menochius)
--- Such dances were formerly very common among all nations. The
Ther...
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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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AND SEE, AND, BEHOLD, IF THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH COME OUT TO DANCE IN
DANCES,.... As they used to do at this festival, not along with men,
but by themselves; and so might the more easily be taken and...
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_And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in
dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his
wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Ben...
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_Daughters of Shiloh_ By whom we may understand not those only who
were born or settled inhabitants there, but all those who were come
thither upon this occasion, and for a time sojourned there: for
a...
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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 see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in
dances, at the designated time, probably the festival of the Passover,
THEN COME YE OUT OF THE VINEYARDS, AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN...
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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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THE DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH; by whom he may possibly understand not those
only who were born or settled inhabitants there, (as many conceive,)
but all those who were come thither upon this occasion, and f...
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‘ And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, ‘Go and lie
in wait in the vineyards. And watch, and behold if the daughters of
Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then you come out of the...
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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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1 Samuel 18:6; 2 Samuel 6:14; 2 Samuel 6:21; Ecclesiastes 3:4; E
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Daughters of Shiloh — By whom we may understand not those only who
were born or settled inhabitants there, but all those who were come
thither upon this occasion, and for a time sojourned there: for
a...