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Judges 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.
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;
°
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?
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.
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.
6
And the
children
of
Israel
repented
them for
Benjamin
their
brother,
and
said,
There is
one
tribe
cut
off
from
Israel
this
day.
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?
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.
9
For the
people
were
numbered,
and, behold, there were
none
of the
inhabitants
of
Jabeshgilead
there.
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.
11
And this is the
thing
that ye shall
do,
Ye shall utterly
destroy
every
male,
and every
woman
that hath
lain
by
man.
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.
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.
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.
15
And the
people
repented
them for
Benjamin,
because that the
LORD
had
made
a
breach
in the
tribes
of
Israel.
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?
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.
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.
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.
20
Therefore they
commanded
the
children
of
Benjamin,
saying,
Go
and lie in
wait
in the
vineyards;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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