Judges 21:15
New International Version
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.

New Living Translation
The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had made this gap among the tribes of Israel.

English Standard Version
And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

King James Bible
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

New King James Version
And the people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
And the people were sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.

NASB 1995
And the people were sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

NASB 1977
And the people were sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the people were sorry for Benjamin because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Amplified Bible
And the people were sorry [and had compassion] for [the survivors of the tribe of] Benjamin because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the LORD had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the LORD had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.

American Standard Version
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the people were grieved for Benjamin, because LORD JEHOVAH made a breach in the tribes of Israel

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites were very sad, because the LORD had almost wiped out one of their tribes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying of one tribe out of Israel.

English Revised Version
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The congregation felt sorry for the people of Benjamin because the LORD had broken the unity of the tribes of Israel.

Good News Translation
The people felt sorry for the Benjaminites because the LORD had broken the unity of the tribes of Israel.

International Standard Version
The people felt sorry for the tribe of Benjamin because the LORD had broken one of the tribes of Israel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
And the people sighed concerning Benjamin, for YHWH had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

New American Bible
The people had regrets about Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

NET Bible
The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.

New Revised Standard Version
The people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

New Heart English Bible
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the people repented for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

World English Bible
The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Wives for the Benjamites
14And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them. 15The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel. 16Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”…

Cross References
Judges 21:14
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

Judges 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, "What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?"


Treasury of Scripture

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

repented

Judges 21:6,17
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day…

a breach

1 Chronicles 13:11
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.

1 Chronicles 15:13
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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Judges 21
1. The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin
8. By the destruction of Jabesh Gilead they provide them four hundred wives.
16. They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh














(15) The Lord had made a breach.--The breach (perets, 1Kings 11:24) had been caused by their own headstrong fury and unreasoning passion, even though it had been in a righteous cause; but in the Hebrew conception the results even of man's sin and follies is referred to Jehovah as overruled by Him (Amos 3:6; Isaiah 45:7). It was therefore needless, and not quite honest of St. Jerome in the Vulg., to omit "the Lord."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The people
וְהָעָ֥ם (wə·hā·‘ām)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

grieved
נִחָ֖ם (ni·ḥām)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge

for Benjamin,
לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן (lə·ḇin·yā·min)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1144: Benjamin -- 'son of the right hand', youngest son of Jacob, also the name of two other Israelites

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the LORD
יְהוָ֛ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

had made
עָשָׂ֧ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

a void
פֶּ֖רֶץ (pe·reṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6556: A bursting forth, breach

in the tribes
בְּשִׁבְטֵ֥י (bə·šiḇ·ṭê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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