Judges 21:15

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

Judges 21:15 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 21:15

And the people repented them for Benjamin
That they had destroyed all their women, and that they had saved no more of the daughters of Jabeshgilead, not a sufficient number to be wives to the Benjaminites:

because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel;
by almost destroying one of them; for though this was done by the Israelites, yet by the permission and according to the will of God, and through his overruling providence.

Judges 21:15 In-Context

13 And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Remmon, and invited them to peace.

14 And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they save alive of the daughters of Jabis Galaad; and they were content.

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

16 And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.

17 And they said, an inheritance of them that are escaped of Benjamin; and a tribe shall not be destroyed out of Israel.

Footnotes

• [a]. See ver. 6.