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Early the next morning, the Israelites built an altar and offered sacrifices to please the Lord and to ask his blessing.[a] Then they asked each other, “Did any of the tribes of Israel fail to come to the place of worship? We made a sacred promise that anyone who didn't come to the meeting at Mizpah would be put to death.”

The Israelites were sad about what had happened to the Benjamin tribe, and they said, “One of our tribes was almost wiped out.

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Footnotes

  1. 21.4 sacrifices … blessing: See the note at 20.26-28.

Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.(A)

Then the Israelites asked, “Who from all the tribes of Israel(B) 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 was to be put to death.

Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. “Today one tribe is cut off from Israel,” they said.

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