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


In Context

12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.

14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

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

16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that have escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

Judges 21:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:15The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:15And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying of one tribe out of Israel.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:15And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.