Judges Chapter 21 verse 17 Holy Bible
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
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And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,
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And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
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And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
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And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that have escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
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They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
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And they say, `A possession of an escaped party `is' to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin. The passage is difficult to construe and to explain. If the words There must be are properly supplied in the A.V., the sense will come out more clearly if we take the word inheritance to mean rather succession, which is the idea contained in the root. There must be a succession for the escaped of Benjamin, i.e. there must be heirs to succeed, and therefore we must find wives for them. The word peleytah without the article can hardly mean the remnant, as has been proposed, but must be defined by being taken with Benjamin.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) There must be an inheritance.--Rather, possession of the remnant shall be for Benjamin--i.e., We will leave untouched their land and possessions. "We give you leave to take the whole land of Benjamin to yourselves" (Jos. Antt. v. 3, ? 12).That a tribe be not destroyed.--Benjamin never quite recovered this crushing blow. Even though it furnished the second judge (Ehud) and the first king (Saul) to Israel, and was advantageously situated, and was often honoured by the residence of Samuel, it became a mere satellite to the more powerful tribe of Judah. Perhaps in the quiescence and permanence derived from the close association with its powerful neighbour we see in part the fulfilment of the blessing in Deuteronomy 33:12.
