Judges 21:18

Tree of Life Version

Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters,” for Bnei-Yisrael had sworn saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin!”

Cross References

Judges 11:35

Upon seeing her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You made me bow down in grief—you’ve made me miserable! For I have opened my mouth to Adonai, and I cannot take it back.”

Judges 21:1

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin in marriage.”

Judges 21:17

They said “The survivors of Benjamin must have heirs, so that a tribe would not be blotted out from Israel.

Judges 21:22

So it will be, if their fathers or brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously for us, because we did not provide each one of them his wife in battle—nor did you give the girls to them, else you would now be guilty.’”