Judges 21:5-8

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ¹  21:6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to ²  their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire ³  tribe from Israel! 21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? ⁴  After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.” 21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”

² tn Or “felt sorry for.”

³ tn Heb “cut off one.”

³ tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”

⁴ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”