Judges 21:1
The men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, “None of us will allow our daughters to marry a Benjamite.”
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In Context
2The Israelites went to Bethel and sat there before God until the evening, crying loudly in distress.
Cross References
Exodus 34:12Make sure you don't agree to a peace treaty with the people living in the land where you are going. Otherwise they will become a trap for you.
Judges 11:30Jephthah made a solemn promise to the Lord, saying, “If you make me victorious over the Ammonites,
Judges 20:8Everyone stood up and unitedly declared, “None of us are going home to our tents! None of us are going home to our houses!
Judges 21:5“Which of all the tribes of Israel didn't attend the assembly we held before the Lord?” they asked. For they had sworn a sacred oath that anyone who did not come before the Lord at Mizpah would without exception be executed.
Judges 21:18But we can't let them have our daughters as wives, since we as the people of Israel swore a sacred oath, saying, ‘Anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite is cursed!’”
1 Samuel 14:24It was difficult for the men of Israel that day because Saul had ordered the army to take an oath, saying, “Cursed is anyone who eats anything before evening, before I have avenged myself on my enemies.” So no one in the army had eaten anything.
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 →