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Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Judges 21:16 (KJV)

Commentary on Judges 21:16

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? The elders' question reveals their dilemma: the women are destroyed out of Benjamin (nishmadah ishah miBinyamin, נִשְׁמְדָה אִשָּׁה מִבִּנְיָמִן). Israel's scorched-earth campaign against Benjamin (20:48) had killed women and children, leaving no Benjamite brides for the 600 surviving men. Combined with their oath forbidding giving their own daughters to Benjamin (21:1), they faced an apparently insoluble problem of their own making.From a Reformed perspecti...

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