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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

士师记 21:17

又說:“便雅憫逃脫的人應有地業,免得有個支派從以色列中被消滅。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Rashness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Music, Instruments, Dancing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Jabesh, Jabesh-Gilead;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Shiloh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blot;   Inheritance;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jabesh;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 说 : 便 雅 悯 逃 脱 的 人 当 有 地 业 , 免 得 以 色 列 中 涂 抹 了 一 个 支 派 。

Contextual Overview

16 The elders of the Israelites said, "The women of Benjamin have been killed. Where can we get wives for the men of Benjamin who are still alive? 17 These men must have children to continue their families so a tribe in Israel will not die out. 18 But we cannot allow our daughters to marry them, because we swore, ‘Anyone who gives a wife to a man of Benjamin is cursed.' 19 We have an idea! There is a yearly festival of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of the city of Bethel, east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and south of the city of Lebonah." 20 So the elders told the men of Benjamin, "Go and hide in the vineyards. 21 Watch for the young women from Shiloh to come out to join the dancing. Then run out from the vineyards and take one of the young Shiloh women and return to the land of Benjamin. 22 If their fathers or brothers come to us and complain, we will say: ‘Be kind to the men of Benjamin. We did not get wives for Benjamin during the war, and you did not give the women to the men from Benjamin. So you are not guilty.'" 23 So that is what the Benjaminites did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one of them, took her away, and married her. Then they went back to the land God had given them and rebuilt their cities and lived there. 24 Then the Israelites went home to their own tribes and family groups, to their own land that God had given them. 25 In those days Israel did not have a king. All the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an inheritance: Numbers 26:55, Numbers 36:7

Reciprocal: Judges 21:15 - repented

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things happened, the Lord spoke his word to Abram in a vision: "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you, and I will give you a great reward."
Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."
Genesis 16:11
The angel added, "You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.
Genesis 21:1
The Lord cared for Sarah as he had said and did for her what he had promised.
Genesis 21:2
Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. Everything happened at the time God had said it would.
Genesis 21:4
He circumcised Isaac when he was eight days old as God had commanded.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:13
I will also make the descendants of Ishmael into a great nation because he is your son, too."
Genesis 21:14
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a leather bag full of water. He gave them to Hagar and sent her away. Carrying these things and her son, Hagar went and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
Genesis 46:3
Then God said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go to Egypt, because I will make your descendants a great nation there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said, there must be an inheritance for them that be escaped Benjamin,.... The escaped are the six hundred men in the rock Rimmon; four hundred of them were supplied with wives, the other two wanted; and as there was an inheritance divided by lot to the tribe of Benjamin, to that tribe and to that only it belonged, and they must have it and no other; it now of right devolved on these six hundred men, and them only, and therefore provision must be made to increase their number, that they may occupy the inheritance they have a right to, rebuild their cities, till their land, cultivate their vineyards and oliveyards, and enjoy all the advantages of their possessions:

that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel; but the full number of the tribes be preserved, and their inheritances belonging to them, according to the predictions of Jacob and Moses, and the assignment of them by lot unto them by Joshua.


 
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