Judges 21:3

They called out, “Why, Yahweh, God of Israel, has this happened to Israel, that one of our tribes should be missing today?”

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

2Then the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until the evening, and with loud voices they wept bitterly.

4The next day the people got up early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

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Cross References

Joshua 7:7Then Joshua said, “Ah, Yahweh Lord, why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all? To give us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we made a different decision and we had stayed on the other side of the Jordan!

Psalms 80:12Why have you broken down its walls 1 so that all who pass by along the road pluck its fruit? 1

Isaiah 63:17Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts, so we do not obey you? 1 Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 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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