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Judges 21:9

For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Discipline;   Jabesh-Gilead;   Rashness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Benjamin, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jabesh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeah;   Gilead;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jabesh-Gilead;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jabesh (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jabesh-Gilead;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Jabesh, Jabesh-Gilead;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Jabesh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For when the roll was called, no men were there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
Hebrew Names Version
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil`ad there.
King James Version
For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Lexham English Bible
The people were counted, and no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
English Standard Version
For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
New Century Version
The people of Israel counted everyone, but there was no one from Jabesh Gilead.
New English Translation
When they took roll call, they noticed none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.
Amplified Bible
For when the people were assembled, behold, there was not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
New American Standard Bible
For when the people were counted, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For when the people were vewed; beholde, none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead were there.
Legacy Standard Bible
En die volk is getel, en daar was niemand van die inwoners van Jabes in Gílead nie.
Complete Jewish Bible
since when the people were counted, none of the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil‘ad were found there.
Darby Translation
for the people were numbered, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead there.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites counted everyone to see who was there and who was not. They found that no one from Jabesh Gilead was there.
George Lamsa Translation
For the people were numbered there, and behold, not one man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was found there.
Good News Translation
at the roll call of the army no one from Jabesh had responded.
Literal Translation
And the people numbered themselves. And, behold, there was not a man of those living in Jabesh-gilead.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And beholde, there was not one man of the citesyns of Iabes in Gilead.
American Standard Version
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the people were viewed, and beholde there were none of the inhabitauntes of Iabes Gilead there.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
King James Version (1611)
For the people were numbred, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead there.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad.
English Revised Version
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Berean Standard Bible
For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also in that tyme, whanne thei weren in Silo, noon of hem was foundun there.
Young's Literal Translation
And the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.
Update Bible Version
For when the people were numbered, look, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the people were numbered, and behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
World English Bible
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
New King James Version
For when the people were counted, indeed, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead was there.
New Living Translation
For after they counted all the people, no one from Jabesh-gilead was present.
New Life Bible
When the people were called, they saw that not one of the people of Jabesh-gilead was there.
New Revised Standard
For when the roll was called among the people, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When the people were numbered, lo! there was not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(At that time also when they were in Silo, no one of them was found there,)
Revised Standard Version
For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead was there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For when the people were numbered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.

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

Reciprocal: Judges 5:23 - they came

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:1
And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
Genesis 21:5
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
Genesis 21:13
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
Genesis 21:14
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the people were numbered,.... To know who did come up, and who did not, and particularly to know whether the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead did or not, against whom an information was brought:

and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there; for as yet none that came had returned home; all came to Shiloh first, to pay their devotion to the Lord; and as none were found among the living, it did not appear they were among the slain; and very probably the muster roll was taken before they went to battle, and they were not on that.


 
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