Holy Scripture

Judges 21:13

A church father on this verse
“Sending legates to the six hundred men of Benjamin, who for four months guarded themselves on the top of sheer rocks and by the desert's barrenness, which was dangerous for a mass of attackers, they lamented their common hardship in losing their fellow tribesmen, relatives and allies. Yet the hope of renewing the trib…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — LETTER 33

Source: Septuagint

Original

13And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Rimmon, and invited them to make peace.

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11And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.

12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

— Judges 21:13 —

14And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the daughters of Jabesh-gilead; and they were content.

15And the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

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