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A Plea for Identity
Commentators note that the repeated use of the name "Israel" in this prayer is a powerful appeal to their covenant with God. The name "Israel" inherently included all twelve tribes. For one tribe to be missing was not just a tragedy but a threat to their very identity as God's chosen people. Their cry shows a deep-seated, though flawed, sense of corporate unity.
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Albert Barnes
On Judges 21:3
18th Century
Theologian
The repetition of the name of Israel is very striking in connection with the title of Yahweh as “God of Israel.” It contains a very forcible pleadi…
Charles Ellicott
On Judges 21:3
19th Century
Bishop
Why is this come to pass ...? —This is not so much an inquiry into the cause, which was indeed too obvious, but a wail of regret, implying…
John Gill
On Judges 21:3
17th Century
Pastor
And said, O Lord God of Israel
Jehovah, the only living and true God, the Being of beings, eternal, immutable, omnip…
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Matthew Henry
On Judges 21:1–25
17th Century
Minister
Israel lamented for the Benjamites and was perplexed by the oath they had taken not to give their daughters to them in marriage. People are more ze…