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Richteren 21:7
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Wat zullen wij nu doen, dat de overgeblevenen vrouwen krijgen? Want wij hebben gezworen bij den Heer, dat wij hun niet van onze dochters tot vrouwen zullen geven.
Wat zullen wij, belangende de vrouwen, doen aan degenen, die overgebleven zijn? want wij hebben bij den HEERE gezworen, dat wij hun van onze dochteren geen tot vrouwen zullen geven.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sworn: Judges 21:1, Judges 21:18, 1 Samuel 14:28, 1 Samuel 14:29, 1 Samuel 14:45
Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Judges 21:22 - give unto Matthew 14:9 - the oath's
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How shall we do for wives for them that remain,.... By which it seems, as well as by what is after related, that they knew of the six hundred men hid in the rock Rimmon:
seeing we have sworn by the Lord; by the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; and such an oath with them was a sacred thing, and to be kept inviolable, even to their own hurt:
that we will not give them of our daughters to wives; as in
Judges 21:1 and therefore they must either marry among the Heathens, which was forbidden, or they must make void their oath, or the tribe in a little time would be extinct; these were difficulties they knew not how to surmount, and this was the object of their inquiry.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 21:7. How shall we do for wives for them — From this it appears that they had destroyed all the Benjamitish women and children! They had set out with the purpose of exterminating the whole tribe, and therefore they massacred the women, that if any of the men escaped, they might neither find wife nor daughter; and they bound themselves under an oath not to give any of their females to any of the remnant of this tribe, that thus the whole tribe might utterly perish.
