Judges 21:18

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Judges 11:35

When he saw her, he ripped up his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought utter disaster to me. You are my undoing, for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back.”

Judges 21:1

In Mizpah the men of Israel had taken an oath: “No one among us will give his daughter to a Benjamite as his wife.”

Judges 21:17

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

Judges 21:22

When their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, ‘Be favorable to them for our sakes, because we did not take for each man a wife in the battle, for you have not given women to them at the time, thereby making yourselves guilty.’ ”