士師記 21:11 JCB

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 21:1-25

Uninstructed zeal, even in the cause of righteousness, often goes beyond its proper limits. The terrible carnage continued until not above six hundred men of the tribe of Benjamin were left. Another of those sudden revulsions which characterize the action of inflamed peoples is seen as Israel was suddenly filled with pity for the tribe so nearly exterminated. This pity, then, operated in ways that were wholly unrighteous. Wives were provided for the men of Benjamin by unjustified slaughter at... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 21:10-11

‘ And the people sent there twelve eleph men of the most valiant, and commanded them saying, “Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. And this is the thing you will do. You will utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.” ’ Twelve picked units of fighting men were despatched to Jabesh-gilead with a view to carrying out The Ban. All there were to be slain except for young virgins. The hypocrisy of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 21:1-25

Judes 21. Benjamin Saved from Extinction.— Two versions of this story have been editorially combined. The second is evidently the older. It was stated that the children of Israel came together as one man ( Judges 20:1; Judges 20:11), but it now appears that Jabesh-gilead, the city that was so loyal to Saul the Benjamite ( 1 Samuel 11:1 f; 1 Samuel 31:11 f., 2 Samuel 2:5 f; 2 Samuel 21:12 f.), did not send a single man to fight against Benjamin. For this sin, all the inhabitants are “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 21:11

But not the virgins, as appears from the next verses. It is questionable whether they were not obliged to destroy these also by virtue of their oath, and of God’s express command concerning devoted persons, such as these certainly were, that they should surely be put to death. Leviticus 27:29, which was also particularly enjoined and practised in such cases, as Deuteronomy 13:0; Joshua 7:0, &c. But the natural and necessary duty of preserving a tribe from total ruin, might seem to render... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 21:1-25

A GREAT CALAMITY PREVENTED(Judges 21:1-25.)HOMILETICS1. Zeal is always right in denouncing sin.It would have showed a lamentable lack of the reverence due to the God of Israel, if such a hideous revelation of evil as that which was discovered at Gibeah, had not met with a loud and emphatic protest on the part of His covenant people. The Church at Ephesus was commended because they “could not bear them that were evil.” In the present case, tolerance to Benjamin would have been treason to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 21:1-25

Chapter 21Now, these men [in chapter twenty-one, had made an oath] they had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin for a wife ( Judges 21:1 ).These Benjamites do these things; none of us will allow them to marry our daughters. It was a vow that they made. Now, let me say that most vows, like this one, are stupid. Most of the vows that are given in the Bible are stupid. This is a stupid vow. Saul made a stupid vow when he saw Jonathan wiping out the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 21:1-25

Judges 21:4 . Built there an altar, in Mizpeh. This altar had long existed. Exodus 38:1. Altars were erected in many places: Samuel, David, and Elijah officiated at those altars. Yea, more; the Lord’s anger was appeased at those altars, and fire descended from heaven to denote the acceptance of the sacrifices. The altar at the sanctuary was for the regular oblations, but was never designed to supersede the extraordinary occasions of the nation. Judges 21:8 . None from Jabesh-gilead. The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 21:1-25

Judges 21:1-25The men of Israel had sworn.An unreasonable oath1. It was an oath that flowed from rash rage rather than from real zeal. Men must swear in judgment (Jeremiah 4:2), not when transported with passion, as Israel was now against Benjamin; their fiery spirits stood now in more need of a bridle than of a spur.2. It was an uncharitable oath, as it was against the repairing of a perishing tribe, which the law of charity bound them to support, and not to see it perish out of the land... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 21:11

Jdg 21:11 And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. Ver. 11. Ye shall utterly destroy every male. ] This also was a barbarous and bloody decree, Eze 18:20 not unlike Draco’s laws, whereof Aristotle giveth this commendation, that they are not worth remembrance, but only for their severity. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 21:11

every male: Numbers 31:17, Numbers 31:18, Deuteronomy 2:34 hath lain by man: Heb. knoweth the lying with man Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:28 - no devoted Numbers 31:7 - all Jeremiah 44:7 - to cut read more