Judges 21:17
“But relenting at having laid so hard a sentence on their brothers, they moderated their severity so as to give them in marriage those maidens that had lost their parents, whose fathers had been slain for their sins, or to give them the means of finding a wife by a raid. Because of the villainy of so foul a deed, they…”
Source: Septuagint
17And they said, There must be an inheritance of them that are escaped of Benjamin; and so a tribe shall not be destroyed out of Israel.
Preparing…
Preparing…
Preparing…
15And the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.
— Judges 21:17 —
18For we shall not be able to give them wives of our daughters, because we swore among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed is he that gives a wife to Benjamin.
19And they said, Lo! now there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and from the south of Lebonah.