Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 21:6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
6. cut off ] cut down; the figure is that of hewing down trees, cf. Isa 10:33; Isa 14:12.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Children of Israel repented them; not for the war, which was just, and necessary, and good; but for their immoderate severity in the execution of it, and for thee dreadful consequences of it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
6. There is one tribe cut off fromIsrael this daythat is, in danger of becoming extinct; for, asit appears from Jud 21:7, theyhad massacred all the women and children of Benjamin, and six hundredmen alone survived of the whole tribe. The prospect of such a blankin the catalogue of the twelve tribes, such a gap in the nationalarrangements, was too painful to contemplate, and immediate measuresmust be taken to prevent this great catastrophe.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother,…. Not that they went to war with them, as if their cause was not good; but for the severity they had exercised towards them, especially in destroying their women and children, and for the fatal consequences like to follow here after, particularly the dissolution of the whole tribe:
and said, there is one tribe cut off from Israel this day; that is, there is a likelihood or great danger of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘ And the children of Israel repented because of what they had done to Benjamin their brother, and said, ‘There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.’
Their musings from one subject to another was to indicate that they were thinking through a solution to the problem of the Benjaminites. ‘Benjamin’ had nearly been destroyed and they were thinking how they could restore them.
In the circumstances in which they found themselves they were convinced that they had destroyed all of Benjamin apart from the six hundred holed up in the Rock of Rimmon (Jdg 20:47). They were almost certainly overlooking the realities of the situation. Quite a number of Benjaminites would have been travelling and would not have been present in the area when the battles and massacre took place. A good number would have escaped in the flight from the massacre, however fierce pursuit was, and would now be in hiding in the mountains, with some possibly in Jerusalem under the protection of the Jebusites. And some would have escaped from the cities before the avenging armies arrived there, as fugitives passed through with news of the defeat. But as armies will they had convinced themselves that they had left none alive.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Jdg 21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Ver. 6. And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin. ] But why did they not repent of their unlawful oath, which now they might as lawfully have broken? Howsoever, it was well done of them to put off their arms and their anger against Benjamin together. Claudian saith in commendation of Theodosius,
“ Post acies odiis idem qui terminus armis. ”
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
repented
(See Scofield “Zec 8:14”) .
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
repented them: Jdg 21:15, Jdg 11:35, Jdg 20:23, 2Sa 2:26, Hos 11:8, Luk 19:41, Luk 19:42
Reciprocal: Psa 68:27 – little
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
21:6 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.