Judges 21:1
Now the men of Israel had made a promise at Mizpah, “None of us will give his daughter to marry a Benjamite.”
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Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among you.
Judges 11:30Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If you give me victory over the people of Ammon,
Judges 20:8All the people arose together as one man, and they said, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house!
Judges 21:5The people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made an important promise concerning anyone who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah. They said, “He would certainly be put to death.”
Judges 21:18We cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the people of Israel had made a promise, 'Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.'”
1 Samuel 14:24That day the men of Israel were distressed because Saul had put the people under an oath and said, “Cursed be the man that eats any food until evening and I am avenged on my enemies.” So none of the troops 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 →