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 Living Translation (©2007)
The Israelites felt sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, "Today one of the tribes of Israel has been cut off.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.

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.

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

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 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the children of Israel grieved 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.

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,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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 Israelites asked, "Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the LORD?" For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah should certainly be put to death.
Judges 21:7 "How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

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

Judges Chapter 21 Verse 6

Alphabetical: And Benjamin Benjamites brother brothers cut for from grieved is Israel Israelites Now of off one said sons sorry the their they Today tribe were

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