Richteren 21:12

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Zij deden aldus, en men trof onder de inwoners van Jabes in Gilead vierhonderd maagden aan, meisjes die met geen man gemeenschap hadden gehad, en bracht die in het kamp te Sjilo, in het land Kanaan.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En zij vonden bij de burgers van Jabes vierhonderd jonge dochters, die maagden waren en bij geen man gelegen hadden; die brachten zij in het leger te Silo in het land Kanan.

Staten Vertaling
En zij vonden onder de inwoners van Jabes in Gilead vierhonderd jonge dochters, die maagden waren, die geen man bekend hadden in bijligging des mans; en zij brachten die in het leger te Silo, dewelke is in het land Kanaan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

virgins: Heb. women

virgins: Shiloh, Judges 20:18, Judges 20:23, Joshua 18:1, Psalms 78:60, Jeremiah 7:12

Reciprocal: Numbers 31:17 - kill every male Judges 21:2 - the house Judges 21:14 - sufficed them not Jeremiah 7:5 - if ye thoroughly

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins,.... Or damsel virgins e; damsels that were virgins: that had known no man by lying with any male: which was judged of by their age, and by their unmarried state, and by common report, unless it can be thought they were examined by matrons; but how it was that they were not obliged, or did not think themselves obliged by their oath to put these to death, as well as others, is not easy to say; whether they thought the necessity of the case would excuse it, or they had a dispensation from the Lord for it, on consulting him; however, so it was:

and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan; this is observed because that Jabeshgilead was not in the land of Canaan, from whence they were brought, but in the land of Og king of Bashan; only what was on this side Jordan was the land of Canaan, and in that Shiloh was, to which they were brought; and this shows that not the city Bethel, but Shiloh, was the place whither the people or army of Israel came to offer sacrifice after the war was ended.

e נערה בתולה "puellam viginem", Montanus; "puellas virgines", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Drusius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To Shiloh - Whither, as the usual place of meeting for the national assembly, the Israelites had moved from Bethel (a distance of about 10 miles), during the expedition of the 12,000 to Jabesh-Gilead.