Judges 21:5-11
a great oath Judg 21:1, Judg 21:18, Judg 5:23; Lev 27:28-29; 1Sam 11:7; Jer 48:10 repented them Judg 21:15, Judg 11:35, Judg 20:23; 2Sam 2:26; Hos 11:8; Luke 19:41-42 sworn Judg 21:1, Judg 21:18; 1Sam 14:28-29, 1Sam 14:45 Jabeshgilead This place, as its name imports, was situated in Gilead, east of Jordan. Eusebius and Jerome say it was a great town in their time, standing upon a hill, six miles south from Pella, in the way to Geresa, now Djerash. The Wady Yabes, mentioned by Burckhardt, which empties itself into the Jordan, in the neighbourhood of Bisan or Beth-shan (see note on 1Sam 31:11), and upon which Pella was situated (celebrated by Pliny, 1. v. c. 18, for its fine waters), seems to have taken its name from Jabesh. Near this spot, we must therefore look for its site; and the place called Kalaat Rabbad seems to correspond, very nearly, to the spot; though it probably still retains among the Arabs its ancient name. 1Sam 11:1-3, 1Sam 31:11-13; 2Sam 2:5-6 Go and smite As they had sworn to destroy those who would not assist in the war (Judg 21:5), they determined to destroy the men of Jabesh, and to leave none except the virgins; and to give these to the 600; Benjamites who had escaped to the rock of Rimmon. The whole account is dreadful. The crime of the men of Gibeah was of the deepest dye; the punishment involving both the guilty and innocent, was extended to the most criminal excess, and their mode of remedying the evil they had occasioned was equally abominable. Judg 21:5, Judg 5:23; Deut 13:15; Josh 7:24; 1Sam 11:7, 1Sam 15:3 every male Num 31:17-18; Deut 2:34 hath lain by man Heb. knoweth the lying with man
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