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.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And they said, there must be an inheritance for them that be escaped Benjamin,.... The escaped are the six hundred men in the rock Rimmon; four hundred of them were supplied with wives, the other two…
We have here the method that was taken to provide the 200 Benjamites that remained with wives. And, though the tribe was reduced to a small number, they were only in care to provide each man with one…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
There must be an inheritance … of Benjamin The Hebr. has only An inheritance of the escaped for(or of) Benjamin, which yields no sense, and suggests corruption in the text. The problem is, how to…