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Judges 21:17 Cross-References
Explore 2 cross-references for Judges 21:17 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Judges chapter 21 verse 17 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.”
Judges 21:17 (KJV)
Commentary on Judges 21:17
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. This verse articulates the theological concern driving Israel's actions: that a tribe be not destroyed (velo yimacheh shevet miYisrael, וְלֹא יִמָּחֶה שֵׁבֶט מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל). The verb machah (מָחָה, "blotted out") appears in God's warning that disobedient Israel would be blotted out from the land (Deuteronomy 29:20). The elders recognized that allowing Benjamin's extinction would rupture the twelve-tribe structure God established through Jacob's sons.The phrase there mu...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Judges 21:17
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“the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.”
“So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.”