Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Judges 21:14 in context
Judges 21:11–17
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This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
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They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
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Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
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The people grieved for Benjamin, because 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 provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
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They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
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