Jud 21:1
21:1 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, showing secretly the means to marry
         certain of their daughters.

Jud 21:4
21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose
     early, and built there an {b} altar, and offered burnt
     offerings and peace offerings.

     (b) According to their custom, when they would consult the
         Lord.

Jud 21:6
21:6 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 appears in @Jud 21:15.

Jud 21:8
21:8 And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel
     that {d} came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold,
     there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the
     assembly.

     (d) Condemning them as lovers of evil, who would not punish
         it.

Jud 21:13
21:13 And the whole congregation {e} sent [some] to speak to the
      children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and
      to call peaceably unto them.

      (e) That is, about four months after the punishment,
          @Jud 20:47.

Jud 21:14
21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them
      wives which they had saved alive of the women of
      Jabeshgilead: and yet {f} so they sufficed them not.

      (f) For they were short two hundred.

Jud 21:17
21:17 And they said, [There must be] {g} an inheritance for them
      that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed
      out of Israel.

      (g) Benjamin must be preserved to have the twelfth portion
          in the inheritance of Jacob.

Jud 21:19
21:19 Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in
      Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the {h} north
      side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth
      up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

      (h) He describes the place where the maids used to dance
          yearly, and sing psalms and songs of God's works among
          them, as the custom was then.

Jud 21:22
21:22 And it shall be, {i} when their fathers or their brethren
      come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be
      favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved
      not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give
      unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.

      (i) Though they attempted to convince man that they had
          kept their oath, before God it was broken.

Jud 21:23
21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them]
      wives, according to their {k} number, of them that danced,
      whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their
      inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

      (k) Meaning, two hundred.



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