6Now the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites. "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel," they said.


In Context

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

4 Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

5 Then the Israelites asked, "Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the LORD ?" For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah should certainly be put to death.

6 Now the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites. "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel," they said.

7 "How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

8 Then they asked, "Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah?" They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

Judges 21:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, |One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, |There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6And the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, 'There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.