Judges 21:13
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the remaining people of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the whole congregation sent word and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the entire congregation sent for the surviving descendants of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon and assured them that their intentions toward them were peaceful.

NET Bible (©2006)
The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the whole congregation sent messengers to the men of Benjamin at Rimmon Rock and offered them peace.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

American King James Version
And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.

American Standard Version
And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were in the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.

Darby Bible Translation
Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

English Revised Version
And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.

World English Bible
The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who are in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Translate the whole verse thus: And the whole congregation sent and shake to the children of Benjamin, etc., and proclaimed peace to them (see Deuteronomy 20:10). They sent ambassadors or heralds to them as it were with a flag of truce.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin,.... Sent some messengers to them, to call them, and desire them to come to them:

that were in the rock Rimmon; the six hundred men who had hid themselves in a cave in it, of which the people of Israel were informed:

and to call peaceably unto them; to proclaim peace to them, and assure them of it, and to let them know that they had no ill design against them, that they might come safely to them, and would be kindly received and protected by them.

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Provision for Benjamin's Survival
…12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them. 14And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. …

Deuteronomy 20:10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.
Judges 20:45 As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
Judges 20:47 But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
Judges 21:12 They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.
Judges 21:14 So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.