How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
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How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
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How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
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How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?'
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Judges 21:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
- Judges 21:18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”
- 1 Samuel 14:28-29 Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So the people were faint. Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 21:7 How shall we do for wives for…
Jdg 21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
Ver. 7. How shall we do for wives? &c.] All this difficulty, say our interpreters, did arise from their gross ignorance in those dark times: for they had no other cause to perplex themselves about their oath, but to stop the outcry of a superstitious conscience: since their oath being wicked, they were not bound at all to keep it, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain How shall we do for wives for them that…
How shall we do for wives for them that remain,.... By which it seems, as well as by what is after related, that they knew of the six hundred men hid in the rock Rimmon:
seeing we have sworn by the Lord; by the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; and such an oath with them was a sacred thing, and to be kept inviolable, even to their own hurt:
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that we will not give them of our daughters to wives; as in Jdg 21:1 and therefore they must either marry among the Heathens, which was forbidden, or they must make void their oath, or the tribe in a little time would be extinct; these were difficulties they knew not how to surmount, and this was the object of their inquiry.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. How shall we do for wives for…
Verse 7. How shall we do for wives for them] From this it appears that they had destroyed all the Benjamitish women and children! They had set out with the purpose of exterminating the whole tribe, and therefore they massacred the women, that if any of the men escaped, they might neither find wife nor daughter; and they bound themselves under an oath not to give any of their females to any of the remnant of this tribe, that thus the whole tribe might utterly perish.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain In general. Hebrew, "by the Lord," with an imprecation,…
In general. Hebrew, "by the Lord," with an imprecation, ver. 18. (Menochius)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. wives for them that remain] Cf. the parallel…
7. wives for them that remain] Cf. the parallel version in Jdg_21:16.
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