Judges 21:9

They realized that when the soldiers were counted, there was no one from Jabesh-Gilead city who had come there.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

In Context

8Then one of them asked, “What group from any of the tribes of Israel did not send any men here to Mizpah?”

10So all the Israelis decided to send 12,000 very good soldiers to Jabesh-Gilead to kill the people there with their swords, even to kill the married women and children.

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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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