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Selected Verse: Judges 21:23 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jud 21:23 |
Strong Concordance |
And the children [01121] of Benjamin [01144] did so [06213], and took [05375] them wives [0802], according to their number [04557], of them that danced [02342], whom they caught [01497]: and they went [03212] and returned [07725] unto their inheritance [05159], and repaired [01129] the cities [05892], and dwelt [03427] in them. |
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King James |
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Compare the very similar account of the rape of the Sabine women by the Romero youths at the festival of the Consualia, as related by Livy. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The Benjaminites adopted this advice. They took to themselves wives according to their number, i.e., two hundred (according to Jdg 21:12, compared with Jdg 20:47), whom they caught from the dancing daughters of Shiloh, and returned with them into their inheritance, where they rebuilt the towns that had been reduced to ashes, and dwelt therein. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
And took, &c. - That is, each man his wife. By which we may see, they had no very favourable opinion of polygamy, because they did not allow it in this case, when it might seem most necessary for the reparation of a lost tribe. Repaired - By degrees, increasing their buildings as their number increased. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
They went and returned unto their inheritance - It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honorable way by the women whom they had thus violently carried off; and we may rest assured they took them to an inheritance at least equal to their own, for it does not appear that any part of the lands of the Benjamites was alienated from them, and the six hundred men in question shared, for the present, the inheritance of many thousands. |
47 But six [08337] hundred [03967] men [0376] turned [06437] and fled [05127] to the wilderness [04057] unto the rock [05553] Rimmon [07417], and abode [03427] in the rock [05553] Rimmon [07417] four [0702] months [02320].
12 And they found [04672] among the inhabitants [03427] of Jabeshgilead [03003] [01568] four [0702] hundred [03967] young [05291] virgins [01330], that had known [03045] no man [0376] by lying [04904] with any male [02145]: and they brought [0935] them unto the camp [04264] to Shiloh [07887], which is in the land [0776] of Canaan [03667].