Judges 21 · Verse 4

Judges 21:4

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Judges 21:4, King James Version

Judges 21:4 in other translations

BSBThe next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
WEBOn the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
ASVAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.
YLTAnd it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the people rise early, and build there an altar, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.
DARBYAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.
BBEThen on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.
WebsterAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings, and peace-offerings.

What does Judges 21:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 21:2-5

Jud 21:1-15. The People Bewail The Desolation of Israel. 2-5. the people came to the house of God, ... and lifted up their voices, and wept sore--The characteristic fickleness of the Israelites was not long in being displayed; for scarcely had they cooled from the fierceness of their sanguinary vengeance, than they began to relent and rushed to the opposite extreme of self-accusation and grief at the desolation…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 Built there an altar - This affords some evidence that this was not a regular place of worship, else an altar would have been found in the place; and their act was not according to the law, as may be seen in several places of the Pentateuch. But there was neither king nor law among them, and they did whatever appeared right in their own eyes.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Judges 21:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַֽיְהִי֙vay.Hiand it wasH1961
מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔תmi.mo.cho.Ratfrom [the] next dayH4283
וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣ימוּvai.yash.Ki.muand they rose earlyH7925
הָעָ֔םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
וַיִּבְנוּ\־vai.yiv.nu-and they builtH1129
שָׁ֖םshamthereH8033
מִזְבֵּ֑חַmiz.Be.achan altarH4196
וַיַּעֲל֥וּvai.ya.'a.Luand they offered upH5927
עֹל֖וֹתo.Lotburnt offeringsH5930
וּשְׁלָמִֽים\׃\ \פu.she.la.Mimand peace offeringsH8002

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Judges 21:4

  • 2 Samuel 24:25

    And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

  • Judges 6:26

    And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

  • Hosea 5:15

    I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

  • Exodus 20:24-25

    An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

  • 2 Samuel 24:18

    And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • Psalms 78:34-35

    When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

  • Hebrews 13:10

    We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

  • 1 Kings 8:64

    The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
rose early.
Ps 78:34,35; Ho 5:15
built there.
6:26; Ex 20:24,25; 2Sa 24:18,25; 1Ki 8:64; Heb 13:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Judges 21:3

    And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

  • Judges 21:4

    And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

  • Judges 21:5

    And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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Judges 21:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y al día siguiente el pueblo se levantó de mañana, y edificaron allí altar, y ofrecieron holocaustos y pacíficos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et le lendemain, il arriva que le peuple se leva de bonne heure et bâtit là un autel; et ils offrirent des holocaustes et des sacrifices de prospérités.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es geschah am anderen Tage, da machte sich das Volk früh auf, und sie bauten daselbst einen Altar und opferten Brandopfer und Friedensopfer.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Altera autem die diluculo consurgentes, exstruxerunt altare: obtuleruntque ibi holocausta, et pacificas victimas, et dixerunt: