John Gill's Exposition on Judges 21:24

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, etc.] The war being ended, and things settled as well as circumstances would admit of, for the preservation of the tribe of Benjamin, who were the cause of it, and had suffered so much in it; the Israelites that had met at Mizpeh, and who had not fallen in the war, returned to their respective countries, to their wives and children, and the business of their callings: and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance; divided by lot to them, to their estates and possessions, which each had a right unto.

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