Judges 21:7

What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

In Context

6And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

8So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

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Cross References

Judges 21:18But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

1 Samuel 14:28Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”

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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