Judges 21:16

And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

15And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying of one tribe out of Israel.

17And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

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Matthew Henry on Judges 21:2-16

Lamentation for the Benjamites; Wives Provided for the Benjamites. ( b. c. 1409.) 1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; 3 And 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? 4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early,… Read the whole commentary →

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