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Jerome's Latin Vulgate
Judices 21:12
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Agros vero et villas ejus dederat Caleb filio Jephone ad possidendum.
Inventaeque sunt de Iabes Galaad quadringentae virgines, quae nescierunt viri torum, et adduxerunt eas in castra in Silo in terra Chanaan.
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.
