Judges 21:1
The sons of Israel had also taken an oath at Mizpah, and they said, “None of us shall give his daughters as a wife to the sons of Benjamin.”
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Exodus 34:12Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin.
Judges 11:30he made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you will deliver the sons of Ammon into my hands,
Judges 20:8And all the people, standing, responded as if with the word of one man: “We shall not return to our own tents, nor shall anyone enter into his own house.
Judges 21:5“Who, out of all the tribes of Israel, did not ascend with the army of the Lord?” For they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were at Mizpah, that whoever was not present would be slain.
Judges 21:18As for our own daughters, we are not able to give them, being bound by an oath and a curse, when we said, ‘Accursed is he who will give any of his daughters to Benjamin as a wife.’”
1 Samuel 14:24And the men of Israel were joined together on that day. And Saul made the people swear, saying, “Cursed be the man who will eat bread, until evening, until I am avenged of my enemies.” And the entire people did not consume bread.
Matthew Henry on Judges 21:1
The ruins of the tribe of Benjamin we read of in the foregoing chapter; now here we have, I. The lamentation which Israel made over these ruins, ver. 1-4 , 6 , 15 . II. The provision they made for the repair of them out of the 600 men that escaped, for whom they procured wives, 1. Of the virgins of Jabesh-Gilead, when they destroyed that city for not sending its forces to the general rendezvous, ver. 5, 7-14 . 2. Of the daughters of Shiloh, ver. 16-25 . And so this melancholy story concludes. Read the whole commentary →