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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Judges 21 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Judges 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/20.htm" title="Judges 20">◄</a> Judges 21 <a href="../ruth/1.htm" title="Ruth 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/judges/21.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">A Tribe is Cut Off</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening and lifted up their voices and wept <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>bitterly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they said, “Why, O Yahweh, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today from Israel?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now it happened the next day that the people arose early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What shall we do for wives for those who are left? But we have sworn by Yahweh not to give them any of our daughters in marriage.” <p class="hdg">Sons of Benjamin Steal the Daughters of Shiloh</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Indeed the people were <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>numbered, but behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the congregation sent 12,000 of the men of valor there and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now this is the thing that you shall do: you shall devote to destruction every man and every woman who has known, <i>that is</i> lain with, a man.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the whole congregation sent <i>word</i> and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and called out peace to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead; yet they did not find <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>enough for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the people were sorry for Benjamin because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they said, “<i>There must be</i> a possession for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But we cannot give them wives of our daughters.” For the sons of Israel had sworn, saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So they said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards, <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards, and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And it will be when their fathers or their brothers come to contend with us, that we shall say to them, ‘Be gracious to us concerning them because we did not take for each man <i>of Benjamin</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>a wife in the battle, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and you did not give <i>your daughters</i> to them; <i>otherwise</i> you would now be guilty.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin did so and carried away wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they stole away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel went <i>away</i> from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>with great weeping</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>there was a great oath</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>mustered</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>a male</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>it so</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>to the sunrise</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>dance</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>his</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>because</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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