Judges 21:15

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

In Context

14And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them the wives whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead; but even so they found not enough for them.

16And the elders of the assembly said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.

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Cross References

Judges 21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day is one tribe extirpated from Israel.

1 Chronicles 13:11And David was indignant; for Jehovah had made a breach upon Uzza; and he called that place Perez-Uzza to this day.

Isaiah 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.

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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