Judges 21:1
HAD SWORN] see on Judges 17:2. All the women and children in Benjamin have been massacred: cp. Judges 21:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAD SWORN] see on Judges 17:2. All the women and children in Benjamin have been massacred: cp. Judges 21:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 two tribal stories m which the rough manners and primitive religious ideas of the time are shown w... [ Continue Reading ]
HOUSE OF GOD] RV 'Bethel,' as in Judges 20:26; Judges 20:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS] see on Judges 20:26. 5. Lit. 'the great curse had been pronounced upon,' etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
REPENTED THEM] see on Judges 2:18. 7-25. The Benjamites provided with wives.... [ Continue Reading ]
JABESH-GILEAD] i.e. Jabesh in Gilead; cp. 1 Samuel 11; 1 Samuel 31:11. Probably about 10 m. SE. of Beth-shean or Beisan.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHILOH] see on Judges 18:31. Hitherto, Bethel had been the headquarters.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALL PEACEABLY] RV 'proclaim peace.' 14. 200 survivors were still left unprovided for.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 to keep these girls, since we did not find wives for them in Jabesh-gilead; and as your daughters w... [ Continue Reading ]