| Clarke's Commentary on the Bible And to call peaceably unto them - To proclaim peace to them; to assure them that the enmity was all over, and that they might with safety leave their strong hold.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin,.... Sent some messengers to them, to call them, and desire them to come to them: that were in the rock Rimmon; the six hundred men who had hid themselves in a cave in it, of which the people of Israel were informed: and to call peaceably unto them; to proclaim peace to them, and assure them of it, and to let them know that they had no ill design against them, that they might come safely to them, and would be kindly received and protected by them.
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe congregation then sent to call the Benjaminites, who had taken refuge upon the rock Rimmon, and gave them as wives, when they returned (sc., into their own possessions), the 400 virgins of Jabesh who had been preserved alive. "But so they sufficed them not" (כּן, so, i.e., in their existing number, 400: Bertheau). In this remark there is an allusion to what follows.
Geneva Study BibleAnd the whole congregation {e} sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. (e) That is, about four months after the punishment, Jud 20:47.
King James Translators' Notesto speak...: Heb. and spake and called call...: or, proclaim peace
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary17:7-13 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. | 
