Richteren 21:14

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Hierop keerden de Benjaminieten terug en gaf men hun de vrouwen die zij uit de vrouwen van Jabes in Gilead in het leven gelaten hadden. Maar er waren er niet genoeg.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Alzo kwamen de kinderen Benjamins weder te dier tijd; en zij gaven hun de vrouwen, die zij behouden hadden uit de vrouwen van Jabes in Gilead; doch aldus waren er niet genoeg voor hen.

Staten Vertaling
Alzo kwamen de Benjaminieten ter zelfder tijd weder; en zij gaven hun de vrouwen, die zij in het leven behouden hadden van de vrouwen van Jabes in Gilead; maar alzo waren er nog niet genoeg voor hen.

Bible Verse Review
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sufficed them not: Judges 21:12, Judges 20:47, 1 Corinthians 7:2

Reciprocal: Judges 21:22 - each man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Benjamin came again at that time,.... The six hundred Benjaminites returned with the messengers at the same time to the people of Israel, putting confidence in the assurances they had given them of peace and safety:

and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead; in doing which they supposed they had not violated their oath, since though they had sworn that they would not give their own daughters, they had not sworn they would not give the daughters of others; and besides, as the men of Jabeshgilead were not at Mizpeh when the oaths were made, they had taken none, and so their daughters might be given in marriage to the Benjaminites, notwithstanding that oath:

and yet so they sufficed them not; there were not wives enough for them all; for they were six hundred men, whereas the daughters of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead were but four hundred, so that there were two hundred more wanting. Abarbinel interprets the word we render "so" in a different manner, by "right", as in Numbers 27:7 and gives the sense thus, that it was not a point of justice and judgment to do this to the daughters of Jabeshgilead, namely, to save and give them in marriage; but they did this because the people repented for Benjamin, as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 21:14. Yet so they sufficed them not. — There were six hundred men at Rimmon, and all the young women they saved from Jabesh were only four hundred; therefore, there were two hundred still wanting.