Judges 21:3

“Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this evil happened among your people, so that this day one tribe would be taken away from us?”

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In The King James Version

And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

In Context

2And they all went to the house of God at Shiloh. And sitting in his sight until evening, they lifted up their voice, and they began to weep, with a great wailing, saying,

4Then, rising at first light on the next day, they built an altar. And they offered holocausts and victims of peace offerings there, and they said,

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Cross References

Joshua 7:7And Joshua said: “Alas, O Lord God! Why would you want to lead this people over the river Jordan, so that you might deliver us into the hand of the Amorite and destroy us? I wish that we had remained beyond the Jordan, as when we began.

Psalms 80:12But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

Isaiah 63:17Why have you allowed us to stray from your ways, O Lord? Why have you hardened our heart, so that we do not fear you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.

Matthew Henry on Judges 21:2-16

Lamentation for the Benjamites; Wives Provided for the Benjamites. ( b. c. 1409.) 1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; 3 And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? 4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early,… Read the whole commentary →

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