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Geneva Bible

Judges 21:15

And the people were sorie for Beniamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breach;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ab, Fifteenth Day of;   Jabesh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the Lord had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
The people repented them for Binyamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Yisra'el.
King James Version
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
And the people felt sorry for Benjamin because Yahweh weakened the tribes of Israel.
English Standard Version
And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
New Century Version
The people of Israel felt sorry for the Benjaminites because the Lord had separated the tribes of Israel.
New English Translation
The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the Lord had weakened the Israelite tribes.
Amplified Bible
And the people were sorry [and had compassion] for [the survivors of the tribe of] Benjamin because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
And the people were sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
En die volk het Benjamin jammer gekry, omdat die HERE 'n skeuring gemaak het onder die stamme van Israel.
Contemporary English Version
The Israelites were very sad, because the Lord had almost wiped out one of their tribes.
Complete Jewish Bible
The people were still sorry for Binyamin because Adonai had made a division among the tribes of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites felt sorry for the men of Benjamin. They felt sorry for them because the Lord had separated them from the other tribes of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
And the people were sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Good News Translation
The people felt sorry for the Benjaminites because the Lord had broken the unity of the tribes of Israel.
Literal Translation
And the people repented as to Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then were the people sory for BenIamin, that ye LORDE had made a gappe in the trybes of Israel.
American Standard Version
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the people were sory for Beniamin, because that the Lord had made a breache in the tribes of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And the people repented them for Beniamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
English Revised Version
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al Israel sorewide greetly, and dide penaunce on the sleyng of o lynage of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.
Update Bible Version
And the people repented for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the people repented for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
World English Bible
The people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
New King James Version
And the people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
New Living Translation
The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the Lord had made this gap among the tribes of Israel.
New Life Bible
The people were sorry for Benjamin because the Lord had divided the families of Israel.
New Revised Standard
The people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, the assembly, had grieved for Benjamin, - because Yahweh had made a breach, in the tribes of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying of one tribe out of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
The people felt bad for Benjamin; God had left out Benjamin—the missing piece from the Israelite tribes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the people were sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 Moreouer, the men of Israel sware in Mizpeh, saying, None of vs shall giue his daughter vnto the Beniamites to wyfe. 2 And the people came vnto ye house of God and abode there till euen before God, and lift vp their voyces, and wept with great lamentation, 3 And sayde, O Lorde God of Israel, why is this come to passe in Israel, that this day one tribe of Israel should want? 4 And on the morow the people rose vp & made there an altar, and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings. 5 Then the children of Israel said, Who is he among all the tribes of Israel, that came not vp with the Congregation vnto the Lorde? for they had made a great othe concerning him that came not vp to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, Let him die the death. 6 And the children of Israel were sory for Beniamin their brother, & said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 7 How shal we do for wiues to them that remaine, seeing we haue sworne by the Lorde, that we will not giue them of our daughters to wiues? 8 Also they saide, Is there any of the tribes of Israel that came not vp to Mizpeh to the Lord? and beholde, there came none of Iabesh Gilead vnto the hoste and to the Congregation. 9 For when the people were vewed; beholde, none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead were there. 10 Therefore the Congregation sent thither twelue thousande men of the most valiant, and commaunded them, saying, Goe, and smite the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, both women, and children.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

repented: Judges 21:6, Judges 21:17

a breach: 1 Chronicles 13:11, 1 Chronicles 15:13, Isaiah 30:13, Isaiah 58:12

Cross-References

Genesis 21:1
Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham arose vp early in ye morning, and tooke bread, and a bottell of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the childe also, and sent her away: who departing wandred in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:22
And at that same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.
Genesis 21:25
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.
2 Kings 3:9
So went the King of Israel & the king of Iudah, and the King of Edom, and when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoste, nor for the cattell that followed them.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalme of Dauid. When he was in the wildernesse of Iudah. O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee: my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and drye land without water.
Isaiah 44:12
The smith taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coles, and facioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea, he is an hungred, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
Jeremiah 14:3
And their nobles haue sent their inferiours to the water, who came to the welles, and founde no water: they returned with their vessels empty: they were ashamed and confounded, and couered their heads.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people repented them for Benjamin,.... That they had destroyed all their women, and that they had saved no more of the daughters of Jabeshgilead, not a sufficient number to be wives to the Benjaminites:

because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel; by almost destroying one of them; for though this was done by the Israelites, yet by the permission and according to the will of God, and through his overruling providence.


 
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