Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
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Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
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And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
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And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; and yet so they sufficed them not.
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Passages linked to Judges 21:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- Judges 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
- Judges 21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For there lacked two hundred.
For there lacked two hundred.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time;…
Jdg 21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
Ver. 14. And Benjamin came again at that time.] They believed their brethren, and obeyed their voice. Had they done so at first, and not tried it out with them, they had redeemed their own sorrows, and been much happier. But bought wit, they say, is best.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Benjamin; the poor remainders of the tribe of Benjamin.
Benjamin; the poor remainders of the tribe of Benjamin.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Benjamin came again at that time,.... The six…
And Benjamin came again at that time,.... The six hundred Benjaminites returned with the messengers at the same time to the people of Israel, putting confidence in the assurances they had given them of peace and safety:
and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead; in doing which they supposed they had not violated their oath, since though they had sworn that they would not give their own daughters, they had not sworn they would not give the daughters of others; and besides, as the men of Jabeshgilead were not at Mizpeh when the oaths were made, they had taken none, and so their daughters might be given in marriage to the Benjaminites, notwithstanding that oath:
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and yet so they sufficed them not; there were not wives enough for them all; for they were six hundred men, whereas the daughters of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead were but four hundred, so that there were two hundred more wanting. Abarbinel interprets the word we render "so" in a different manner, by "right", as in Num 27:7 and gives the sense thus, that it was not a point of justice and judgment to do this to the daughters of Jabeshgilead, namely, to save and give them in marriage; but they did this because the people repented for Benjamin, as follows.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. Yet so they sufficed them not.] There…
Verse 14. Yet so they sufficed them not.] There were six hundred men at Rimmon, and all the young women they saved from Jabesh were only four hundred; therefore, there were two hundred still wanting.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. and yet so they sufficed them not] i.e.…
14. and yet so they sufficed them not] i.e. the 400 virgins were not sufficient for the 600 Benjamite survivors; a prosaic attempt to harmonize with the old story in Jdg_21:15-23, as though the rape at Shiloh were a supplementary device to bring the number of wives up to the total required; cf. Jdg_21:16 a. Lit. the phrase may be rendered and they (the Israelites) did not find enough for them even so, cf. Num_11:22; as a rule enough is expressed in the Heb., Lev_12:8; Lev_25:26; Lev_25:28.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) Came again—i.e., returned to their desolate towns.
(14) Came again—i.e., returned to their desolate towns.
Yet so they sufficed them not.—There would still be 200 Benjamites left without wives.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Benjamin came again, i.e. returned to their own homes…
Benjamin came again, i.e. returned to their own homes in the tribe of Benjamin, as in ver. 23. Yet so they sufficed them net or, Yet so they (the Israelites) did not provide enough for them (the Benjamites); or, Yet so they (the Benjamites) had not enough for themselves.
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