King James Version
What Does Judges 21:14 Mean?
“And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead : and yet so they sufficed them not.”
Context
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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. young: Heb. young women virgins
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And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. to speak: Heb. and spake and called call: or, proclaim peace
14
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead : and yet so they sufficed them not.
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And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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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?
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Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(14) **Came again**—i.e., returned to their desolate towns.
**Yet so they sufficed them not.**—There would still be 200 Benjamites left without wives.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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