Judges 21:19
And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
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20And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,
Cross References
Leviticus 23:2Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.
Leviticus 23:6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.
Leviticus 23:34Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.
Numbers 28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.
Numbers 29:12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;
Deuteronomy 16:10Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:
Matthew Henry on Judges 21:17-25
The Virgins of Shiloh Surprised. ( b. c. 1409.) 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? 17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. 19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the… Read the whole commentary →