Hakim-hakim 21:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jadi bani Benyamin berbuat demikian; dari gadis-gadis yang menari-nari yang dirampas itu mereka mengambil perempuan, jumlahnya sama dengan jumlah mereka, kemudian pulanglah mereka ke milik pusakanya lalu membangun kota-kotanya kembali dan diam di sana.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jadi bani Benyamin berbuat demikian; dari gadis-gadis yang menari-nari yang dirampas itu mereka mengambil perempuan, jumlahnya sama dengan jumlah mereka, kemudian pulanglah mereka ke milik pusakanya lalu membangun kota-kotanya kembali dan diam di sana.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, maka oleh bani Benyamin dibuat juga begitu, dibawanya lari akan orang perempuan sekadar bilangannya, direbutnya dari pada segala anak-anak perempuan yang menari itu; maka mereka itupun berjalan pergi, lalu pulang kepada bahagiannya pusaka, dibangunkannya pula akan segala negerinya, lalu duduklah mereka di dalamnya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And then the elders of the congregation, sayd: What shall we do to the remnaunt of them, to get them wiues? seyng all the women of Beniamin are destroyed? ¹⁷ And they sayde: There must be an inheritaunce for them that be escaped of Beniamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. ¹⁸ Howbeit, we may not geue the wyues of our daughters. For the children of Israel had sworne, saying: Cursed be he that geueth a wyfe to Beniamin. ¹⁹ Then they sayde: Behold, there is a feast of ye Lorde yerely in Silo, which is on the northside of Bethel, & on the cast side of the way that goeth from Bethel to Sichem, and south from Libanon. ²⁰ Therfore they commaunded the children of Beniamin, saying: Go, and lye in wayte in the vineyardes. ²¹ And when ye see that the daughters of Silo come out to daunce in daunces, the come ye out of the vineyardes & catche you euery man a wyfe of the daughters of Silo, & go to the lande of Beniamin. ²² And when their fathers or brethren come vnto vs to complayne, we will say vnto them, Haue pitie on vs for their sakes: because we reserued not to eche man his wyfe in tyme of warre, neither haue ye geuen vnto them, that ye should sinne at this time. ²³ And the children of Beniamin did eue so, and toke them wyues according to the numbre of them that dauced, whom they caught: and they went, and returned vnto their inheritaunce, and repayred the cities, and dwelt in them. ²⁴ And the children of Israel departed thence at that tyme, & went euery man to his tribe, and to his kinred, and went out from thence euery man to his inheritaunce. ²⁵ In those dayes there was no king in Israel: but euery man dyd that whiche seemed right in his owne eyes.

Bible Verse Review
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and they went: It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honourable way to the women they had thus violently carried off, and we may rest assured, that they took them to an inheritance more than equal to their own. But this transaction, as well as the indiscriminate massacre of the people of Jabesh-gilead, as Dr. Gray observes, was certainly stamped with injustice and cruelty; and must be condemned on those principles which the Scriptures elsewhere furnish.

repaired: Judges 20:48

Cross-References

Genesis 20:14
Then toke Abimelech sheepe and oxen, men seruauntes and women seruauntes, & gaue [them] vnto Abraham, and delyuered hym Sara his wyfe agayne.

Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wyldernesse of Paran, and his mother got hym a wyfe out of the lande of Egypt.

Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:

Genesis 21:23
And nowe therefore, sweare vnto me euen here by God, that thou wylt not hurt me, nor my chyldren, nor my chyldrens children: but that thou shalt deale with me and the countrey where thou hast ben a straunger, accordyng vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed thee.

Genesis 24:3
And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:

Genesis 26:28
Whiche aunswered: We sawe most certainly that the Lord was with thee, and we sayde: let there be nowe an oth betwixt vs, euen betwixt vs and thee, and let vs make a league with thee:

Genesis 31:44
Nowe therfore come on, and let vs make a league I and thou, which may be a wytnesse betwene me and thee.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, and the God of theyr father, be iudge betwixt vs. And Iacob sware by the feare of his father Isahac.

Deuteronomy 6:13
Thou shalt feare the Lorde thy God and serue hym, and shalt sweare by his name.

Joshua 2:12
Nowe therfore, I pray you sweare vnto me by the Lorde, that as I haue shewed you mercie, ye shall also shewe mercie vnto my fathers house, and geue me a true token:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Benjamin did so,.... Went and laid wait in the vineyards, and when the daughters of Shiloh came out to dance, they rushed upon them:

and took them wives according to their number; two hundred of them, each man a wife, and no more; for though polygamy was in use in those times, and if at any time necessary, and could be excused, it might seem now; yet it was not indulged to, neither by the elders, nor by the children of Benjamin:

of them that danced whom they caught; the rape of the Sabine virgins by Romulus, at the arena plays and shows, mentioned by various authors h, and the carrying off of fifteen Spartan virgins from the dances by Aristomenes the Messenian i, are sometimes observed as parallel cases to this, and justified by it, particularly that of Romulus k:

and they went and returned unto their inheritance; the six hundred Benjaminites, with their wives, returned to their own tribe, which was their inheritance by lot; and these, being the only survivors, had a right to the whole:

and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them: in process of time they rebuilt the cities the Israelites had burnt in the late war, and repeopled them as their posterity increased. And the Jewish writers say, that in later times they were allowed to marry with other tribes as before, since the oath only bound those present at Mizpeh; for they observe, that it ran only,

there shall not any of us, c. not any of our sons they might give wives to Benjamin, and so in time they became numerous again.

h Liv. Hist. l. 1. p. 7, 8. Flor Hist. Rom. l. 1. c. 1. Aurel. Victor. de Vir Illustr. c. 2. Valer. Maxim. l. 1. c. 4. i Hierop adv. Jovinian. l. 1. fol. 17. B, C. k Vid. Albericum Gentil. de armis Roman l. 2. p. 114.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the very similar account of the rape of the Sabine women by the Romero youths at the festival of the Consualia, as related by Livy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 21:23. They went and returned unto their inheritance — It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honourable way by the women whom they had thus violently carried off; and we may rest assured they took them to an inheritance at least equal to their own, for it does not appear that any part of the lands of the Benjamites was alienated from them, and the six hundred men in question shared, for the present, the inheritance of many thousands.