Judges 21:2 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 21:2

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

KJV

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ASV

And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.

WEB

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

YLT

And the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep--a great weeping,

DBT

And the people came to Bethel, and abode there till even beforeGod, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly,

About this book

Old Testament

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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12 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 1:10
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
1 Samuel 11:4
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Judges 20:18
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.

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), not so much for the 40,000 whom they had lost (these would not be so much missed out of eleven tribes), but for the entire destruction of one whole tribe; for this was the complaint they poured out before God (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

There is no previous record of this oath; but the purport of it was, that they would treat the perpetrators of this Gibeah atrocity in the same way as the Canaanites, who were doomed to destruction; and the entering into this solemn league was of a piece with the rest of their inconsiderate conduct in this whole affair.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H1058114× in canon H6153134× in canon H1008142× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JDG 21:2JDG 20:26 JDG 20:23
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 21:2JDG 20:18 JDG 20:26-27
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 21:2JDG 20:26 JDG 20:18
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 21:2JOS 18:1 JOS 19:51
JDG 21:2JOS 18:1 JOS 21:2
JDG 21:2JDG 20:18 NUM 27:21
JDG 21:2JDG 20:26 JOE 2:12-18
JDG 21:2JOS 18:1 1SA 1:3

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