Judges 21:15

The people were sorry for what happened to Benjamin, because Yahweh made a division between the tribes of Israel.

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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

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.

16Then the leaders of the assembly said, “How will we arrange wives for the Benjamites who are left, since the women of Benjamin have been killed?”

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Cross References

Judges 21:6The people of Israel had compassion for their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

1 Chronicles 13:11David was angry because Yahweh had attacked Uzzah. That place is called Perez Uzzah to this day.

Isaiah 30:13so this sin will be to you 1 like a broken part ready to fall, like a bulge in a high wall 1 whose fall will happen suddenly, in an instant.” 1

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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