Judges 21 - Introduction

XXI.

Judges 21:1. Remorse of the Israelites at the extirpation of a tribe in consequence of their oath not to give their daughters in marriage to the Benjamites. Judges 21:8. Expedient of destroying Jabesh-Gilead to furnish wives from thence. Judges 21:16. As there was still an insufficient number of wives, they persuade the Benjamites to seize the virgins of Shiloh at a sacred dance.