Judges 21:6

21:6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to 1  their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire 2  tribe from Israel!

Judges 21:15

21:15 The people regretted what had happened to 3  Benjamin because the Lord had weakened 4  the Israelite tribes.

1 tn Or “felt sorry for.”

2 tn Heb “cut off one.”

3 tn Or “felt sorry for.”

4 tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.