American Standard Version
Judges 21:15
15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
- New International Version (NIV)The people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And the people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
Context of Judges 21:15
13And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them. 14And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. 16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? 17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
Read all of Judges 21Judges 21:15 word by word
וְהָעָ֥ם נִחָ֖ם לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן כִּֽי־עָשָׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה פֶּ֖רֶץ בְּשִׁבְטֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Judges 21:15
- Judges 21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
- 1 Chronicles 13:11And David was displeased, because Jehovah had broken forth upon Uzza: and he called that place Perez-uzza, unto this day.
- 1 Chronicles 15:13For because ye bare it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.
- Isaiah 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.
- Isaiah 58:12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Commentaries on Judges 21:15
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-17The people grieved for Benjamin: Israel worried about the nation's division. The gap in Israel was God's doing, as the war against Benjamin was a response to God's covenant.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-152-5. the people came to the house of God, ... and lifted up their voices, and wept sore--The characteristic fickleness of the Israelites was not long in being displayed; for scarcely had they cooled from the fierceness of their sanguinary vengeance, than they began to relent and rushed to the opposite extreme of self-accusation and grief at the desolation which their impetuous zeal had produced. Their victory saddened and humbled them. Their feelings on…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Judges 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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