Judges 21:4

And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

In Context

3O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?

5Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:24You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

Judges 6:26And thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God in the top of this rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.

2 Samuel 24:18And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.

1 Kings 8:64In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and fat of the peace offerings.

Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

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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