3And they said, |O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|


In Context

1 Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, |No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.|

2 And the people came to Bethel, and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.

3 And they said, |O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

4 And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

5 And the people of Israel said, |Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?| For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, |He shall be put to death.|

Judges 21:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:3"O LORD , the God of Israel," they cried, "why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:3O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And they said, O LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:3They said, |Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:3and say, 'Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel — to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?