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**had sworn:** i.e. before the fighting of [Judges 20](../../../kjv/judges/20) .

**the house of God.** Probably Shiloh, Compare [Judges 21:12](../../../kjv/judges/21/12) with [Judges 18:31](../../../kjv/judges/18/31) .
**God.** Hebrew. *ha-'Elohim,* "the [true] God". App-4 .
**wept sore.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ), "wept a great weeping". See note on [Genesis 26:28](../../../kjv/genesis/26/28) . Benjamin is indeed, now, "a son of sorrow" ( *Ben-oni,* a son of sorrow. [Genesis 35:18](../../../kjv/genesis/35/18) ).

**LORD God** = *Jehovah Elohim.* App-4 .

**offered.** Hebrew. *'alah* . App-43 .

**children** = sons.
**congregation** = military assembly.

**children** = little children. Hebrew. *taph.* Compare [Judges 13:5](../../../kjv/judges/13/5) .

**man** = male. Hebrew. *zakar.*

**young virgins.** Hebrew young women, virgins.
**virgins.** Hebrew. *bethulah.*
**Shiloh.** See note on [Judges 18:31](../../../kjv/judges/18/31) .

**call peaceably** = proclaim peace.

**a feast of the LORD.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "a feast to Jehovah".
**yearly.** The three feasts had come down to one. Apostasy was the cause of all their internal disorders.
**north side, &c.** Shiloh and the house of Jehovah were so neglected that these minute instructions were necessary to enable an Israelite to find it. We have the same difficulty to-day; and when we find it we too often find, not the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. but what answers to that which we find in [Judges 21:21](../../../kjv/judges/21/21) .
**Lebonah.** AUTHORIZED VERSION 1611 reads "Lebanon" by an error. Modern "Lubban", about 3 miles north-west of Shiloh.

**dance in dances.** This is what "religion" had come to in those days of apostasy, by which we must judge it.
**man.** Heb, *'ish.* App-14 .

**at this time, &c.:** i.e. "at the time when ye would have incurred guilt [by so doing]".

**repaired** = rebuilt, or built up.

**no king.** Note the structural arrangement of the four occurrences of this expression. See note on [Judges 18:1](../../../kjv/judges/18/1) .
**did** = did continually. This is the Divine summing up of the whole book, by way of Epilogue. All the evil follows as the result of the disobedience in [Judges 1:27-36](../../../kjv/judges/1/27-36) .

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