XXI.
Judges 21:1-7. Remorse of the Israelites at the extirpation of a tribe in consequence of their oath not to give their daughters in marriage to the Benjamites. Judges 21:8-15. Expedient of destroying Jabesh-Gilead to furnish wives from thence. Judges 21:16-25. As there was still an insufficient number of wives, they persuade the Benjamites to seize the virgins of Shiloh at a sacred dance.