Judges 21:3 KJV
And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Scofield Notes
- tribeThere is here no mourning for sin, no humbling because of national transgression, no return to Jehovah. Accordingly, no word from Jehovah comes to them. They...
Matthew Henry
- The Israelites lament for the BenjamitesIsrael lamented for the Benjamites, and were perplexed by the oath they had taken, not to give their daughters to them in marriage. Men are more zealous to...
Thompson Chains
- SeekersSee the chain from 2 Chronicles 11:16 · 9 links
Cross References
- Deuteronomy 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
- Joshua 7:7–9 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! …
- Psalms 74:1 <Maschil of Asaph.> O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
- Psalms 80:12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
- Proverbs 19:3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
- Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
- Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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Topics
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1413 BC · No King in Israel
Bible Dictionary
- LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
- God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
- IsraelThe name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Gen 32:28), because “as a prince he had power with God and...
Strong’s Numbers
- And said אָמַר ʼâmar
- O LORD יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh
- God אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
- of Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
- why is this come to pass in Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
- that there should be to day יוֹם yôwm
- one אֶחָד ʼechâd
- tribe שֵׁבֶט shêbeṭ
- lacking פָּקַד pâqad
- in Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
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