Hakim-hakim 21:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu kata mereka pula: "Setiap tahun ada perayaan bagi TUHAN di Silo yang letaknya di sebelah utara Betel, di sebelah timur jalan raya yang menuju dari Betel ke Sikhem dan di sebelah selatan Lebona."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu kata mereka pula: "Setiap tahun ada perayaan bagi TUHAN di Silo yang letaknya di sebelah utara Betel, di sebelah timur jalan raya yang menuju dari Betel ke Sikhem dan di sebelah selatan Lebona."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu kata mereka itu: Bahwasanya adalah suatu hari raya bagi Tuhan di Silo pada sebilang tahun, yaitu pada tempat arah ke utara Bait-el dan pada sebelah timur jalan besar yang naik dari Bait-el ke Sikhem dan pada sebelah selatan Lebona.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And then the elders of the congregation, sayd: What shall we do to the remnaunt of them, to get them wiues? seyng all the women of Beniamin are destroyed? ¹⁷ And they sayde: There must be an inheritaunce for them that be escaped of Beniamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. ¹⁸ Howbeit, we may not geue the wyues of our daughters. For the children of Israel had sworne, saying: Cursed be he that geueth a wyfe to Beniamin. ¹⁹ Then they sayde: Behold, there is a feast of ye Lorde yerely in Silo, which is on the northside of Bethel, & on the cast side of the way that goeth from Bethel to Sichem, and south from Libanon. ²⁰ Therfore they commaunded the children of Beniamin, saying: Go, and lye in wayte in the vineyardes. ²¹ And when ye see that the daughters of Silo come out to daunce in daunces, the come ye out of the vineyardes & catche you euery man a wyfe of the daughters of Silo, & go to the lande of Beniamin. ²² And when their fathers or brethren come vnto vs to complayne, we will say vnto them, Haue pitie on vs for their sakes: because we reserued not to eche man his wyfe in tyme of warre, neither haue ye geuen vnto them, that ye should sinne at this time. ²³ And the children of Beniamin did eue so, and toke them wyues according to the numbre of them that dauced, whom they caught: and they went, and returned vnto their inheritaunce, and repayred the cities, and dwelt in them. ²⁴ And the children of Israel departed thence at that tyme, & went euery man to his tribe, and to his kinred, and went out from thence euery man to his inheritaunce. ²⁵ In those dayes there was no king in Israel: but euery man dyd that whiche seemed right in his owne eyes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a feast: Exodus 23:14-16, Leviticus 23:2, Leviticus 23:4, Leviticus 23:6, Leviticus 23:10, Leviticus 23:34, Numbers 10:10, Numbers 28:16, Numbers 28:26, Numbers 29:12, Deuteronomy 16:1, Deuteronomy 16:10, Deuteronomy 16:13, Psalms 81:3, John 5:1, John 7:2

yearly: Heb. from year to year

on the east side: or, toward the sun rising

of the highway: or, on

Lebonah: Maundrell supposes, that either Khan Leban, which is situated on the eastern side of a "delicious vale," four leagues south from Shechem, and two leagues north from Bethel, or the village of Leban, which is on the opposite side, occupies the site of the ancient Lebonah. It is eight hours, or about 24 miles, from Jerusalem, according to Dr. Richardson.

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:1 - Shiloh Joshua 19:51 - in Shiloh 2 Samuel 20:13 - the highway

Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
And Abraham was an hundreth yere olde, when his sonne Isahac was borne vnto him.

Genesis 21:6
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.

Genesis 21:16
And went, and sate on the other syde a great way, as it were a bowe shote of: for she sayd, I wyll not see the death of the chylde. And she sitting downe on the other side, lyft vp her voyce & wept.

Genesis 21:17
And God hearde the voyce of the lad, and the angell of God called to Hagar out of heauen, and said vnto her, what ayleth thee Hagar? feare not: for God hath hearde the voyce of the lad where he lyeth.

Genesis 21:20
And God was with the lad, and he grewe, and dwelt in the wyldernesse, and became a principall archer.

Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.

Numbers 22:31
And the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, hauing his sworde drawen in his hande: He bowed hym selfe therefore, and fell flat on his face.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they said,.... Some of the elders that sat in council debating this matter, and considering of ways and means to assist their brethren the Benjaminites, and preserve their tribe from being lost:

behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly; where the tabernacle then was, and before which the males of Israel were obliged to appear three times of the year; and this was one of them, as is clear by its being called a feast of the Lord; and therefore cannot design any civil festival or fair kept for trade and commerce. Some have thought of the feast of the passover, but it is most likely to be the feast of tabernacles, as Abarbinel takes it to be; which in Jewish writings is emphatically called "the feast"; and the time of year when that was kept was a time of great rejoicing, on account of the fruits of the earth being gathered in, and the reading of the law and especially at the tithe of drawing of water at this feast; insomuch that it is said e that he who never saw the rejoicing at drawing of water never saw rejoicing in his life, which was attended with piping, and dancing, and singing. It is pretty strange what Kimchi notes, that this may be either one of the above feasts, or the day of atonement, at which, he says, the daughters of Israel used to go and dance in the vineyards, according to the words of the Rabbins; when though that is reckoned among the feasts, Leviticus 23:1 it was properly a fast, as it is called, Acts 27:9 and all tokens of festivity and joy were forbidden on it; and where these words of their Rabbins are to be met with, he says not: in a place

which is on the north side of Bethel; we rightly supply "in a place": for the intention is not to describe the situation of Shiloh, which was well known, but a place not far from it, where at this festival the daughters of Shiloh used to dance:

on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem; this place lay to the east of a public road, that led from Bethel to Shechem:

and on the south of Lebonah; which Mr. Maundrell f takes to be a place now called Kane Leban, which stands on the east side of a delightful vale, having a village of the same name standing opposite to it on the other side of the vale; one of these places, either that Kane or the village, is supposed to be the Lebonah mentioned Judges 21:19 to which both the name and situation seem to agree.

e Misn. Succah, c. 5. sect. 1, 4. Vid. Maimon. Hilchot Lulab, c. 8. sect. 13. f Journey from Aleppo, p. 63.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Feast was probably the Passover, or one of the three great Jewish Feasts. In these unsettled times men went up to Shiloh (Seilun) only once a year 1 Samuel 1:3 instead of thrice; only the males kept the Feasts, and therefore the virgins of Shiloh would naturally be the only maidens present, and the public festival would be a likely occasion for their festive dances. It is, however, possible that some particular feast unique to Shiloh is meant, like the yearly sacrifice of David’s family in Bethlehem 1 Samuel 20:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 21:19. There is a feast of the Lord — What this feast was is not known: it might be either the passover, pentecost, or the feast of tabernacles, or indeed some other peculiar to this place. All the above feasts were celebrated at that time of the year when the vines were in full leaf; therefore the Benjamites might easily conceal themselves in the vineyards; and the circumstances will answer to any of those feasts.

On the east side of the highway, c. — I can see no reason for this minute description, unless it intimates that this feast was to be held this year in rather a different place to that which was usual: and, as the Benjamites had been shut up in their strong hold in Rimmon, they might not have heard of this alteration and it was necessary, in such a case, to give them the most circumstantial information, that they might succeed in their enterprise without being discovered.