The leaders of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, because he hid.