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Clementine Latin Vulgate

Judices 21:7

Et filiis Merari per cognationes suas de tribubus Ruben et Gad et Zabulon urbes duodecim.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Discipline;   Rashness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of;   Oaths;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Mizpah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Jabesh, Jabesh-Gilead;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Oath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Yiẓḥaḳ Bar Redifa;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
unde uxores accipient? omnes enim in commune juravimus, non daturos nos his filias nostras.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quid faciemus, ut, qui remanserunt, uxores accipiant? Omnes enim in commune iuravimus per Dominum non daturos nos his filias nostras".

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.


 
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