Jdg 21:4And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose up early, and built there an altar, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and [fn]peace-offerings.
Jdg 21:5And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? for there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Massephath, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Jdg 21:8And they said, What one man is there of the tribes of Israel, who went not up to the Lord to Massephath? and, behold, no man came to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the assembly.
Jdg 21:10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the [fn]strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go ye and smite the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the [fn]edge of the sword.
Jdg 21:11And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.
Jdg 21:12And they found [fn]among the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Selom in the land of Chanaan.
Jdg 21:14And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the daughters of Jabis Galaad; and [fn]they were content.
Jdg 21:18For we shall not be able to give them wives of our daughters, because we swore among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed is he that gives a wife to Benjamin.
Jdg 21:19And they said, Lo! now there is a feast of the Lord [fn]from year to year in Selom, which is on the north of Bæthel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bæthel to Sychem, and from the south of Lebona.
Jdg 21:21and ye shall see; and lo! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Selom to dance in dances, then shall ye go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Selom, and go ye into the land of Benjamin.
Jdg 21:22And it shall come to pass, when their fathers or their brethren come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, Grant them freely to us, for we have not taken every man his wife in the battle: because ye did not give to them [fn]according to the occasion, ye transgressed.
Jdg 21:23And the children of Benjamin did so; and they took wives according to their number from the dancers whom they seized: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
Jdg 21:24And the children of Israel [fn]went thence at that time every man to his tribe and his kindred; and they went thence every man to his inheritance.
