Teks -- Judges 21:7 (NET)

21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

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Clarke: Jdg 21:7 - How shall we do for wives for them

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.

TSK: Jdg 21:7 - sworn

sworn : Jdg 21:1, Jdg 21:18; 1Sa 14:28, 1Sa 14:29, 1Sa 14:45

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Haydock: Jdg 21:7 - In general

In general. Hebrew, "by the Lord," with an imprecation, ver. 18. (Menochius)

Gill: Jdg 21:7 - How shall we do for wives for them that remain // seeing we have sworn by the Lord // that we will not give them of our daughters to wives

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 Jdg 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.