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Selected Verse: Judges 21:6 - Strong Concordance

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Jud 21:6 Strong Concordance And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] repented [05162] them for Benjamin [01144] their brother [0251], and said [0559], There is one [0259] tribe [07626] cut off [01438] from Israel [03478] this day [03117].
  King James And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day--that is, in danger of becoming extinct; for, as it appears from Jdg 21:7, they had massacred all the women and children of Benjamin, and six hundred men alone survived of the whole tribe. The prospect of such a blank in the catalogue of the twelve tribes, such a gap in the national arrangements, was too painful to contemplate, and immediate measures must be taken to prevent this great catastrophe.
 
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7 How shall we do [06213] for wives [0802] for them that remain [03498], seeing we have sworn [07650] by the LORD [03068] that we will not give [05414] them of our daughters [01323] to wives [0802]?
14 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; As I thought [02161] to punish [07489] you, when your fathers [01] provoked me to wrath [07107], saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], and I repented [05162] not: