15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
15 And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.
15 And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
15 The people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
15 And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
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Commentary on Judges 21 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 21
The ruins of the tribe of Benjamin we read of in the foregoing chapter; now here we have,
Jdg 21:1-15
We may observe in these verses,
Jdg 21:16-25
We have here the method that was taken to provide the 200 Benjamites that remained with wives. And, though the tribe was reduced to a small number, they were only in care to provide each man with one wife, not with more under pretence of multiplying them the faster. They may not bestow their daughters upon them, but to save their oath, and yet marry some of their daughters to them, they put them into a way of taking them by surprise, and marrying them, which should be ratified by their parents' consent, ex post facto-afterwards. The less consideration is used before the making of a vow, the more, commonly, there is need of afterwards for the keeping of it.
Lastly, In the close of all we have,