Judges 21:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 - 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.

Judges 21:7

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?