Judges 21:1
600 Brides for 600 Brothers
21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”
Judges 21:7
21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left?
1 After all, we took an oath in the
Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
Judges 21:18
21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them,
2 for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’
3
1 tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”
2 tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”
3 tn Heb “is cursed.”