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JUD-21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying,
There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to
wife.
JUD-21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode
there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept
sore;
JUD-21:3 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?
JUD-21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose
early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings.
JUD-21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who [is there] among
all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation
unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him
that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely
be put to death.
JUD-21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin
their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel
this day.
JUD-21:7 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?
JUD-21:8 And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of
Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold,
there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
JUD-21:9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were]
none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
JUD-21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men
of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the
inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the
women and the children.
JUD-21:11 And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall
utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by
man.
JUD-21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead
four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with
any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which
[is] in the land of Canaan.
JUD-21:13 And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the
children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call
peaceably unto them.
JUD-21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave
them wives which they had saved alive of the women of
Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
JUD-21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because
that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
JUD-21:16 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?
JUD-21:17 And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them
that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out
of Israel.
JUD-21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters:
for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he
that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
JUD-21:19 Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD
in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side of
Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from
Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
JUD-21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,
saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
JUD-21:21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come
out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and
catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go
to the land of Benjamin.
JUD-21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren
come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be
favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to
each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at
this time, [that] ye should be guilty.
JUD-21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them]
wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they
caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and
repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
JUD-21:24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that
time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went
out from thence every man to his inheritance.
JUD-21:25 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man
did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
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