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Literal Standard Version

Judges 21:6

And the sons of Israel sigh concerning their brother Benjamin, and say, "Today there has been one tribe 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.
Bible in Basic English
And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
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

1And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, "None of us gives his daughter to Benjamin for a wife." 2And the people come to Beth-El, and sit there until the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep [with] a great weeping, 3and say, "Why, O YHWH, God of Israel, has this been in Israel—to be lacking one tribe from Israel today?" 4And it comes to pass on the next day, that the people rise early, and build an altar there, and cause burnt-offerings and peace-offerings to ascend. 5And the sons of Israel say, "Who [is] he that has not come up in the assembly to YHWH out of all the tribes of Israel?" For the great oath has been concerning him who has not come up to YHWH to Mizpeh, saying, "He is surely put to death." 6And the sons of Israel sigh concerning their brother Benjamin, and say, "Today there has been one tribe cut off from Israel,7what do we do for them—for those who are left—for wives, since we have sworn by YHWH not to give to them from our daughters for wives?" 8And they say, "Who is [that] one out of the tribes of Israel who has not come up to YHWH to Mizpeh?" And behold, none has come to the camp from Jabesh-Gilead—to the assembly. 9And the people numbered themselves, and behold, there is no man from the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead. 10And the congregation sends twelve thousand men of the sons of valor there, and commands them, saying, "Go—and you have struck the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

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
And Abraham falls on his face, and laughs, and says in his heart, "Is one born to the son of one hundred years? Or does Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?"
Genesis 21:12
and God says to Abraham, "Let it not be wrong in your eyes because of the youth, and because of your handmaid: all that Sarah says to you—listen to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to you.
Genesis 21:15
and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21:21
and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for him a wife from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 21:22
And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, "God [is] with you in all that you are doing;
Genesis 21:27
And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
Genesis 21:28
and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
Psalms 113:9
Causing the barren one of the house to sit, || A joyful mother of sons; praise YAH!
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouth is filled [with] laughter, || And our tongue [with] singing, || Then they say among nations, "YHWH did great things with these."
Isaiah 49:15
"Does a woman forget her suckling, || The loved one—the son of her womb? Indeed, these forget—but I do not forget you.

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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