You did not give ... - i.e., they had not broken the oath mentioned in (Judges 21:1), so as to be guilty of taking the Lord’s na…

Be favorable to them for our sakes. —Rather, Present them (otham, masculine, as in Judges 21:12) to us;…

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come
to us to complain
Of this …

Israel lamented for the Benjamites and was perplexed by the oath they had taken not to give their daughters to them in marriage. People are more ze…