Judges 21:4
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New International Version (©2011)
Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Early the next morning the people built an altar and presented their burnt offerings and peace offerings on it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It came about the next day that the people arose early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The next day, the people got up early, built an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

NET Bible (©2006)
The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The next day the people got up early. They built an altar there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it came to pass the next day, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

Darby Bible Translation
And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Young's Literal Translation
And 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.

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 4.- Offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. See ch. 20:26, note.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early,.... The day after their fasting and prayer, and a sense of their present case and circumstances being deeply impressed upon their minds, they rose early in the morning to acts of devotion, and exercises of religion, hoping that being in the way of their duty, the difficulties with which they were perplexed would be removed:

and built there an altar; if this place was Bethel, as Kimchi reasons, there Jacob had built an altar; but that in such a course of years might have been demolished: and if it was Shiloh, there was the tabernacle, and so the altar of the Lord there; wherefore this either signifies the repairing of that, being in ruins, which is not likely, since it was but lately used, Judges 20:26 or the building of a new one, which to do in the tabernacle was not unlawful, especially when the number of sacrifices required it, which it is highly probable was the case now, as it was at the dedication of the temple, 1 Kings 8:64 though the above mentioned writer thinks, that building an altar signifies, as in many places, only seeking the Lord; but the use for which it was built is expressed:

and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings; both to atone for the sins they had been guilty of in the prosecution of the war, and to return thanks for victory given, and to implore fresh favours to be bestowed upon them.

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Mourning the Tribe of Benjamin
…3And 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? 4And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 5And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to 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. …

Deuteronomy 12:5 But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;
Judges 21:3 "LORD, God of Israel," they cried, "why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?"
1 Samuel 7:17 But he always went back to Ramah, where his home was, and there he also held court for Israel. And he built an altar there to the LORD.
2 Samuel 24:25 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered his prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.