Judges 21:13

The entire assembly sent a message and told the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon that they were offering them peace.

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In The King James Version

And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

In Context

12The men found among those living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh, in Canaan.

14The Benjamites returned at that time and they were given the women of Jabesh Gilead, but there were not enough women for all of them.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:32Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. These were twenty-nine cities in all, including their villages.

Judges 20:47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness, toward the rock of Rimmon. For four months they stayed at the rock of Rimmon.

Luke 10:5Whatever house you enter, first say, 'May peace be on this house!'

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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