Judges 21:17

Modern English Version

They said, “There must be an inheritance for the remnant of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.

Cross References

Numbers 26:55

But the land will be divided by lot. By the names of the tribes of their fathers they will inherit.

Numbers 36:7

So the inheritance of the Israelites will not turn from tribe to tribe, because every one of the Israelites will keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Judges 21:16

The elders of the assembly said, “What can we do to find wives for those who are left? The Benjamite women were destroyed.”

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give them our daughters for wives, for the Israelites swore, ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”