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Judges 21
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21Now the Israelites had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin."H376H3478H7650H4709H559H376H5414H1323H1144H802 2And the people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.H5971H935H1004H430H1008H3427H6153H6440H430H5375H6963H1058H1065H1419 3They said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, why has it come to pass that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?"H559H3068H430H3478H3478H3117H259H7626H6485H3478 4On the next day, the people got up early, and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being.H4283H5971H7925H1129H4196H5927H5930H8002 5Then the Israelites said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For a solemn oath had been taken concerning whoever did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "That one shall be put to death."H1121H3478H559H7626H3478H834H5927H6951H3068H1419H7621H5927H3068H4709H559H4191H4191 6But the Israelites had compassion for Benjamin their kin, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.H1121H3478H5162H1144H251H559H259H7626H1438H3478H3117 7What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters as wives?"H6213H802H3498H7650H3068H5414H1323H802 8Then they said, "Is there anyone from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?" It turned out that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp, to the assembly.H559H259H7626H3478H5927H4709H3068H935H376H4264H3003H1568H6951 9For when the roll was called among the people, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.H5971H6485H376H3427H3003H1568 10So the congregation sent twelve thousand soldiers there and commanded them, "Go, put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword, including the women and the little ones.H5712H7971H8147H6240H505H376H1121H2428H6680H559H3212H5221H3427H3003H1568H6310H2719H802H2945 11This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction."H1697H6213H2763H2145H802H4904H3045 12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man and brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.H4672H3427H3003H1568H702H3967H5291H1330H3045H376H4904H2145H935H4264H7887H776H3667 13Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.H5712H7971H1696H1121H1144H5553H7417H7121H7965 14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; but they did not suffice for them.H1144H7725H6256H5414H802H2421H802H3003H1568H4672 15The people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.H5971H5162H1144H3068H6213H6556H7626H3478 16So the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since there are no women left in Benjamin?"H2205H5712H559H6213H802H3498H802H8045H1144 17And they said, "There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, in order that a tribe may not be blotted out from Israel.H559H3425H6413H1144H7626H4229H3478 18Yet we cannot give any of our daughters to them as wives." For the Israelites had sworn, "Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin."H3201H5414H802H1323H1121H3478H7650H559H779H5414H802H1144 19So they said, "Look, the yearly festival of the LORD is taking place at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."H559H2282H3068H7887H3117H3117H6828H1008H4217H8121H4546H5927H1008H7927H5045H3829 20And they instructed the Benjaminites, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,H6680H1121H1144H559H3212H693H3754 21and watch; when the young women of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and each of you carry off a wife for himself from the young women of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.H7200H1323H7887H3318H2342H4246H3318H3754H2414H376H802H1323H7887H1980H776H1144 22Then if their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Be generous and allow us to have them; because we did not capture in battle a wife for each man. But neither did you incur guilt by giving your daughters to them.'"H1H251H935H7378H559H2603H3947H376H802H4421H5414H6256H816 23The Benjaminites did so; they took wives for each of them from the dancers whom they abducted. Then they went and returned to their territory, and rebuilt the towns, and lived in them.H1121H1144H6213H5375H802H4557H2342H1497H3212H7725H5159H1129H5892H3427 24So the Israelites departed from there at that time by tribes and families, and they went out from there to their own territories.H1121H3478H1980H6256H376H7626H4940H3318H376H5159 25In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.H3117H4428H3478H376H6213H3477H5869


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