KJV ORIGINAL
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Then the leaders of the community said, 'What can we do to find wives for the remaining men, since all the women from the tribe of Benjamin have been killed?'
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
The leaders are desperately trying to figure out how to find wives for the surviving men of Benjamin since their women were killed in the war.
📚 Historical Context
This occurs after a devastating civil war where the other eleven tribes of Israel nearly wiped out the tribe of Benjamin over a horrific crime. The Israelites had sworn an oath not to give their daughters in marriage to the Benjamites, but now they realized this would mean the complete extinction of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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