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Judges 21:6

And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Brother;   Discipline;   Rashness;   Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeah;   Mizpah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Jabesh, Jabesh-Gilead;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the Israelites had compassion on their brothers, the Benjaminites, and said, “Today a tribe has been cut off from Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el repented them for Binyamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Yisra'el this day.
King James Version
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Lexham English Bible
But the Israelites had compassion for Benjamin, their relatives, and they said, "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.
English Standard Version
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
New Century Version
The Israelites felt sorry for their relatives, the Benjaminites. They said, "Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
New English Translation
The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said, "Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!
Amplified Bible
And the sons of Israel felt sorry [and had compassion] for their brother Benjamin and said, "One tribe has been cut off from Israel today.
New American Standard Bible
And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin, and said, "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel!
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the children of Israel were sory for Beniamin their brother, & said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Legacy Standard Bible
Toe het die kinders van Israel hulle broer Benjamin jammer gekry en gesê: Daar is vandag een stam uit Israel afgesny.
Contemporary English Version
The Israelites were sad about what had happened to the Benjamin tribe, and they said, "One of our tribes was almost wiped out.
Complete Jewish Bible
The people of Isra'el became sorry for Binyamin their brother and said, "Today one tribe has been cut off from Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day is one tribe extirpated from Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Israelites felt sorry for their relatives, the people of Benjamin. They said, "Today, one tribe has been separated from Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the children of Israel were sorry for the Benjamites their brethren, and said, One tribe has disappeared from Israel this day.
Good News Translation
The people of Israel felt sorry for their brothers the Benjaminites and said, "Today Israel has lost one of its tribes.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel repented concerning their brother Benjamin. And they said, One tribe from Israel has been cut off today.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel were sory for BenIamin their brother, and sayde: This daye is there one trybe lesse in Israel.
American Standard Version
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Israel had pitie on Beniamin their brethren, and sayde: There is one tribe cut of from Israel this day:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said: 'There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
King James Version (1611)
And the children of Israel repented them for Beniamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day one tribe is cut off from Israel.
English Revised Version
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Berean Standard Bible
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, "Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel weren led bi penaunce on her brother Beniamyn, and bigunnen to seie, O lynage of Israel is takun awey;
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, `There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
World English Bible
The children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
New King James Version
And the children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.
New Living Translation
The Israelites felt sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, "Today one of the tribes of Israel has been cut off.
New Life Bible
The people of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin. They said, "One family is cut off from Israel today.
New Revised Standard
But the Israelites had compassion for Benjamin their kin, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Israel grieved for Benjamin, their brother, - and they said, There is cut off, to-day, one tribe out of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.
Revised Standard Version
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
THE MESSAGE
But the People of Israel were feeling sorry for Benjamin, their brothers. They said, "Today, one tribe is cut off from Israel. How can we get wives for those who are left? We have sworn by God not to give any of our daughters to them in marriage."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin. 2 And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping. 3 And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel? 4 Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings. 5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death. 6 And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel. 7 What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives. 8 And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting. 9 For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present. 10 So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

repented them: Judges 21:15, Judges 11:35, Judges 20:23, 2 Samuel 2:26, Hosea 11:8, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:42

Reciprocal: Psalms 68:27 - little

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
Genesis 21:12
But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.
Genesis 21:15
And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.
Genesis 21:21
And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 21:22
Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.
Genesis 21:27
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.
Genesis 21:28
And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.
Psalms 113:9
He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
Isaiah 49:15
Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother,.... Not that they went to war with them, as if their cause was not good; but for the severity they had exercised towards them, especially in destroying their women and children, and for the fatal consequences like to follow here after, particularly the dissolution of the whole tribe:

and said, there is one tribe cut off from Israel this day; that is, there is a likelihood or great danger of it.


 
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