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Selected Verse: Judges 21:6 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
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]. |
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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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
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. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
repented
(See Scofield) - (Zac 8:14).
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Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Repented - Not for the war, which was just and necessary, but for their immoderate severity in the execution of it. That is no good divinity which swallows up humanity. Even necessary justice is to be done with compassion. |
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: