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Judges 21
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21Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.H376H3478H7650H4709H559H376H5414H1323H1144H802
2And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;H5971H935H1004H430H1008H3427H6153H6440H430H5375H6963H1058H1065H1419
3And 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?H559H3068H430H3478H3478H3117H259H7626H6485H3478
4And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.H4283H5971H7925H1129H4196H5927H5930H8002
5And 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.H1121H3478H559H7626H3478H834H5927H6951H3068H1419H7621H5927H3068H4709H559H4191H4191
6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.H1121H3478H5162H1144H251H559H259H7626H1438H3478H3117
7How 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?H6213H802H3498H7650H3068H5414H1323H802
8And 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.H559H259H7626H3478H5927H4709H3068H935H376H4264H3003H1568H6951
9For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.H5971H6485H376H3427H3003H1568
10And 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.H5712H7971H8147H6240H505H376H1121H2428H6680H559H3212H5221H3427H3003H1568H6310H2719H802H2945
11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. / hath lain…: Heb. knoweth the lying with manH1697H6213H2763H2145H802H4904H3045
12And 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. / young…: Heb. young women virginsH4672H3427H3003H1568H702H3967H5291H1330H3045H376H4904H2145H935H4264H7887H776H3667
13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. / to speak…: Heb. and spake and called / call…: or, proclaim peaceH5712H7971H1696H1121H1144H5553H7417H7121H7965
14And 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.H1144H7725H6256H5414H802H2421H802H3003H1568H4672
15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.H5971H5162H1144H3068H6213H6556H7626H3478
16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?H2205H5712H559H6213H802H3498H802H8045H1144
17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.H559H3425H6413H1144H7626H4229H3478
18Howbeit 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.H3201H5414H802H1323H1121H3478H7650H559H779H5414H802H1144
19Then 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. / yearly: Heb. from year to year / on the east…: or, toward the sunrising / of the highway: or, on the highwayH559H2282H3068H7887H3117H3117H6828H1008H4217H8121H4546H5927H1008H7927H5045H3829
20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;H6680H1121H1144H559H3212H693H3754
21And 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.H7200H1323H7887H3318H2342H4246H3318H3754H2414H376H802H1323H7887H1980H776H1144
22And 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. / Be favourable…: or, Gratify us in themH1H251H935H7378H559H2603H3947H376H802H4421H5414H6256H816
23And 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.H1121H1144H6213H5375H802H4557H2342H1497H3212H7725H5159H1129H5892H3427
24And 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.H1121H3478H1980H6256H376H7626H4940H3318H376H5159
25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.H3117H4428H3478H376H6213H3477H5869


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