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Judges 21:9

For when the people were assembled, behold, there was not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Discipline;   Jabesh-Gilead;   Rashness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Benjamin, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jabesh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeah;   Gilead;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jabesh-Gilead;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jabesh (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jabesh-Gilead;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Jabesh, Jabesh-Gilead;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Jabesh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For when the roll was called, no men were there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
Hebrew Names Version
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil`ad there.
King James Version
For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Lexham English Bible
The people were counted, and no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
English Standard Version
For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
New Century Version
The people of Israel counted everyone, but there was no one from Jabesh Gilead.
New English Translation
When they took roll call, they noticed none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.
New American Standard Bible
For when the people were counted, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For when the people were vewed; beholde, none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead were there.
Legacy Standard Bible
En die volk is getel, en daar was niemand van die inwoners van Jabes in Gílead nie.
Complete Jewish Bible
since when the people were counted, none of the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil‘ad were found there.
Darby Translation
for the people were numbered, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead there.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites counted everyone to see who was there and who was not. They found that no one from Jabesh Gilead was there.
George Lamsa Translation
For the people were numbered there, and behold, not one man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was found there.
Good News Translation
at the roll call of the army no one from Jabesh had responded.
Literal Translation
And the people numbered themselves. And, behold, there was not a man of those living in Jabesh-gilead.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And beholde, there was not one man of the citesyns of Iabes in Gilead.
American Standard Version
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Bible in Basic English
For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the people were viewed, and beholde there were none of the inhabitauntes of Iabes Gilead there.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
King James Version (1611)
For the people were numbred, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead there.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad.
English Revised Version
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Berean Standard Bible
For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also in that tyme, whanne thei weren in Silo, noon of hem was foundun there.
Young's Literal Translation
And the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.
Update Bible Version
For when the people were numbered, look, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the people were numbered, and behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
World English Bible
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
New King James Version
For when the people were counted, indeed, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead was there.
New Living Translation
For after they counted all the people, no one from Jabesh-gilead was present.
New Life Bible
When the people were called, they saw that not one of the people of Jabesh-gilead was there.
New Revised Standard
For when the roll was called among the people, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When the people were numbered, lo! there was not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(At that time also when they were in Silo, no one of them was found there,)
Revised Standard Version
For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead was there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For when the people were numbered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.

Contextual Overview

1Now the men of Israel had sworn [an oath] at Mizpah, "None of us shall give his daughter in marriage to [a man of] Benjamin." 2So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. 3They said, "O LORD, God of Israel, why has this come about in Israel, that there should be today one tribe missing from Israel?" 4And the next day the people got up early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 5Then the sons of Israel said, "Which one from 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 at Mizpah, saying, "He shall certainly be put to death." 6And the sons of Israel felt sorry [and had compassion] for their brother Benjamin and said, "One tribe has been cut off from Israel today. 7"What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn [an oath] by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters as wives?" 8And they said, "Which one is there of the tribes from Israel that did not come up to Mizpah to the LORD?" And behold, [it was discovered that] no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly. 9For when the people were assembled, behold, there was not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.10And the congregation sent twelve thousand of the most courageous men there, and commanded them saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the sword, including the women and the children.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Judges 5:23 - they came

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard and listened to you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will greatly multiply him [through his descendants]. He will be the father of twelve princes (chieftains, sheiks), and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:1
The LORD graciously remembered and visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for her as He had promised.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham named his son Isaac (laughter), the son to whom Sarah gave birth.
Genesis 21:5
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh; all who hear [about our good news] will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:13
"And I will also make a nation of [Ishmael] the son of the maid, because he is your descendant."
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:23
so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me [by breaking any agreements we have] or with my son or with my descendants, but as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me and to the land in which you have sojourned (temporarily lived)."
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, "I will swear."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the people were numbered,.... To know who did come up, and who did not, and particularly to know whether the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead did or not, against whom an information was brought:

and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there; for as yet none that came had returned home; all came to Shiloh first, to pay their devotion to the Lord; and as none were found among the living, it did not appear they were among the slain; and very probably the muster roll was taken before they went to battle, and they were not on that.


 
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