Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 21:21
And catch you every man his wife - That is, Let each man of the two hundred Benjamites seize and carry off a woman, whom he is, from that hour, to consider as his wife. read more
士師記 21:16-24 Rcuvts
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 21:22
Be favorable unto them - They promise to use their influence with the men of Shiloh to induce them to consent to a connection thus fraudulently obtained, and which the necessity of the case appeared to them to justify. We reserved not to each man his wife in the war - The reading of the Vulgate is very remarkable: Miseremini eorum, non enim rapuerunt eas jure bellantium atque victorum, sed rogantibus ut acciperent non dedistis, et a vestra parte peccatum est .... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 21:23
They went and returned unto their inheritance - It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honorable way by the women whom they had thus violently carried off; and we may rest assured they took them to an inheritance at least equal to their own, for it does not appear that any part of the lands of the Benjamites was alienated from them, and the six hundred men in question shared, for the present, the inheritance of many thousands. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 21:24
Every man to his tribe - Though this must have been four months after the war with Benjamin, Judges 20:47 ; yet it appears the armies did not disband till they had got the remnant of Benjamin settled, as is here related. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 21:18
For the children of Israel have sworn - See Judges 21:1. Compare Saul’s rash oath 1 Samuel 14:24, and his breach of the oath made to the Gideonites 2 Samuel 21:2. For the guilt of a broken oath, see Ezekiel 17:15-20; Exodus 20:7. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 21:19
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... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 21:22
Ye did not give ... - i. e., they had not broken the oath mentioned in Judges 21:1, so as to be guilty of taking the Lord’s name in vain. They did not give their daughters to Benjamin: the Benjamites had taken them by force. Such casuistry as this condemns the system of oaths, and illustrates the wisdom of our Lord’s precept Matthew 5:33-37. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 21:23
Compare the very similar account of the rape of the Sabine women by the Romero youths at the festival of the Consualia, as related by Livy. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 21:17
Judges 21:17. There must be an inheritance for Benjamin The words, There must be, are not in the Hebrew, which runs thus: The inheritance of them that are escaped is for Benjamin; that is, the six hundred remaining Benjamites must have that part of the country which was given to the whole tribe by the divine lot for their inheritance; or, the inheritance promised by Jacob and Moses, and given by Joshua to the tribe of Benjamin, doth all of it belong to those few who remain of that... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 , etc. - I can see no... read more