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Book 07 Judges Chapter 021

 

021:001Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall
not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

 

021:002And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till
even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

 

021:003And 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?

 

021:004And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early,
and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings.

 

021:005And 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.

 

021:006And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their
brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this
day.

 

021:007How 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?

 

021:008And 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.

 

021:009For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of
the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

 

021:010And 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.

 

021:011And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly
destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

 

021:012And 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.

 

021:013And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children
of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call
peaceably unto them.

 

021:014And 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.

 

021:015And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

 

021:016Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out
of Benjamin?

 

021:017And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be
escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of
Israel.

 

021:018Howbeit 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.

 

021:019Then 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.

 

021:020Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go
and lie in wait in the vineyards;

 

021:021And 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.

 

021:022And 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.

 

021:023And 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.

 

021:024And 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.

 

021:025In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.