Judges 21:1
And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, “None of us gives his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.”
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Exodus 34:12take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst;
Judges 11:30And Jephthah vows a vow to YHWH and says, “If You give the sons of Ammon into my hand at all—
Judges 20:8And all the people rise as one man, saying, “None of us goes to his tent, and none of us turns aside to his house;
Judges 21:5And the sons of Israel say, “Who [is] he that has not come up in the assembly to YHWH out of all the tribes of Israel?” For the great oath has been concerning him who has not come up to YHWH to Mizpeh, saying, “He is surely put to death.”
Judges 21:18and we are not able to give wives to them out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.”
1 Samuel 14:24And the men of Israel have been distressed on that day, and Saul adjures the people, saying, “Cursed [is] the man who eats food until the evening, and I have been avenged of my enemies”; and none of the people have tasted food.
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 →