Judices 21:18

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Filias enim nostras eis dare non possumus, constricti juramento et maledictione qua diximus: Maledictus qui dederit de filiabus suis uxorem Benjamin.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et Anathoth et Almon, cum suburbanis suis : civitates quatuor.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Filias autem nostras eis dare non possumus, constricti hoc iuramento: "Maledictus, qui dederit de filiabus suis uxorem Beniamin!"".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sworn: Judges 21:1, Judges 11:35

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Leviticus 27:28 - no devoted Judges 21:5 - a great oath Judges 21:7 - sworn Judges 21:22 - give unto Matthew 26:74 - began

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, we may not give them wives of our daughters,.... Though their case was so very necessitous and desperate:

for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin, Judges 21:1 and therefore without the violation of their oath could not give any of their daughters in marriage to them: wherefore some other way must be devised to help them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the children of Israel have sworn - See Judges 21:1. Compare Saul’s rash oath 1 Samuel 14:24, and his breach of the oath made to the Gideonites 2 Samuel 21:2. For the guilt of a broken oath, see Ezekiel 17:15-20; Exodus 20:7.