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However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
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A Self-Imposed Dilemma
All commentators agree that the Israelites were in a self-imposed bind. Having sworn a solemn oath, recorded in Judges 21:1, not to give their daughters to the Benjamites, they felt they could not break their word. This oath, which carried a curse, is the central reason they had to devise another, more complicated plan to provide wives for the surviving men of Benjamin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the children of Israel have sworn - See (Judges 21:1). Compare Saul’s rash oath (1 Samuel 14:24), and h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
However, we may not give them wives of our daughters Though their case was so very necessitous and desperate:
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…
