Judges 21:1-8
oath <07650> [had sworn.]
<0376> [There.]
daughter <01323> [his daughter.]
<01004> [the house.]
<05375> [lifted.]
Israel ...... Israel ........ Israel <03478> [why is.]
early <07925> [rose early.]
built ... altar <01129 04196> [built there.]
solemn oath <07621 01419> [a great oath.]
regretted ........ Benjamin <05162 01144> [repented them.]
oath <07650> [sworn.]
Jabesh <03003> [Jabesh-gilead.]
This place, as its name imports, was situated in Gilead, east of Jordan. Eusebius and Jerome say it was a great town in their time, standing upon a hill, six miles south from Pella, in the way to Geresa, now Djerash. The Wady Yabes, mentioned by Burckhardt, which empties itself into the Jordan, in the neighbourhood of Bisan or Beth-shan (see 1 Sa 31:11,) and upon which Pella was situated, (celebrated by Pliny, 1. v. c. 18, for its fine waters,) seems to have taken its name from Jabesh. Near this spot, we must therefore look for its site; and the place called Kalaat Rabbad seems to correspond, very nearly, to the spot; though it probably still retains among the Arabs its ancient name.
