Judges 21:6
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New International Version (©1984)
Now the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites. "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel," they said.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The people of Israel felt sorry for their close relatives, the men of Benjamin. They said, "Today one tribe has been excluded from Israel.

King James Bible
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

American 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.

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.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.

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.

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 grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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,

Geneva Study Bible

And the children of Israel {c} repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

(c) Or, were sorry that they had destroyed their brethren, as it appears in Jud 21:15.

Wesley's Notes

21:6 Repented - Not for the war, which was just and necessary, but for their immoderate severity in the execution of it. That is no good divinity which swallows up humanity. Even necessary justice is to be done with compassion.

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin repented

See Scofield Note: "Zech 8:14".

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day-that is, in danger of becoming extinct; for, as it appears from Jud 21:7, they had massacred all the women and children of Benjamin, and six hundred men alone survived of the whole tribe. The prospect of such a blank in the catalogue of the twelve tribes, such a gap in the national arrangements, was too painful to contemplate, and immediate measures must be taken to prevent this great catastrophe.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.


Judges 21:5 Then the sons of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
Judges 21:7 "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?" (NASB ©1995)

Benjamin Benjamites Children Compassion Cut Israel Israelites Moved Pity Repent Repented Sorry Today To-Day Tribe

And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

repented them Jud 21:15 11:35 20:23 2Sa 2:26 Ho 11:8 Lu 19:41,42

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