Judges 21:1-2
1599 Geneva Bible
21 1 The Israelites swear that they will not marry their daughters to the Benjamites. 10 They slay them of Jabeth Gilead, and give their virgins to the Benjamites. 21 The Benjamites take the daughters of Shiloh.
1 Moreover, the men of Israel [a]sware in Mizpah, saying, None of us shall give his daughter unto the Benjamites to wife.
2 And the people came unto the house of God and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept with great lamentation,
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- Judges 21:1 This oath came of rashness, and not of judgment: for after they brake it, in showing secretly the means to marry with certain of their daughters.
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