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YE SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY - More exactly, “Ye shall devote to utter
destruction,” or “cherem” (Leviticus 27:28 note)....
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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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MAN. male. Hebrew. _zakar._...
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_And this is the thing … do_ Similarly Judges 20:9.
_ye shall utterly destroy_ The city and all its inhabitants were to
become _ḥérem_, placed under the ban, for not taking part in the
holy war again...
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EVERY WOMAN THAT HATH LIEN BY MAN— This exception for the
preservation of virgins was received in all nations, and was in time
the source of the many prerogatives wherewith virgins were honoured;
thos...
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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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_FOR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE
INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD THERE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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 recount...
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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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YE SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY. — The verb is _tacharîmû_ — i.e., _Ye
shall place under the ban_ (_cherem_)_, ye shall devote to
destruction._ The words of the _cherem_ are almost identical with
those of th...
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וְ זֶ֥ה הַ דָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ
כָּל ־זָכָ֗ר וְ כָל ־אִשָּׁ֛ה
יֹדַ֥עַת מִשְׁכַּב ־זָכָ֖ר...
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
THESE last Chapter s describe a general and vehement outburst of moral
indignation throughout Israel, reco...
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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...
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_But, &c. This is not expressed in the Hebrew or the Septuagint,
though it be sufficiently implied, (Calmet) as the males and married
women only are ordered to be slain. (Haydock) --- It is doubted
wh...
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It should seem, that the vengeance taken of the men of Jabesh-gilead,
was more with an eye to provide in this manner wives for Benjamin,
than to punish them, for not coming up against Gibeah....
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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 THIS IS THE THING THAT YE SHALL DO,.... Which they gave them in
charge to execute:
YE SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY EVERY MALE; without any reserve, young or
old, married or unmarried:
AND EVERY WOMAN T...
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And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy
every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Ver. 11. _Ye shall utterly destroy every male._] This also was a
barbarous and bl...
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_Ye shall utterly destroy every male_, &c. Strange infatuation of the
human mind! That they should imagine the Divine Majesty would be more
honoured and pleased by an action quite contrary to, and abh...
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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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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 Roc...
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HATH LAIN BY MAN:
_ Heb._ knoweth the lying with man...
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BUT NOT THE VIRGINS, as appears from the next verses. It is
questionable whether they were not obliged to destroy these also by
virtue of their oath, and of God's express command concerning devoted
pe...
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JUDGES 21:11 THING H1697 DO H6213 (H8799) DESTROY H2763 (H8686) MALE
H2145 WOMAN H802 INTIMATELY H4904 H3045 (H8802)
every male - Numbers 31:17-18; Deuteronomy 2:34...
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‘ And the people sent there twelve eleph men of the most valiant,
and commanded them saying, “Go and smite the inhabitants of
Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the
little on...
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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 justi...
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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 21:10 DEVOTE TO DESTRUCTION. This phrase is
found throughout Joshua describing the Israelites’ destruction of
the Canaanites (e.g., Joshua 6:17; Joshua 10:28; see note on Josh.
6...
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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 2:34; Numbers 31:17; Numbers 31:18...