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?
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 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
In the Book of Judges, Israel was in a tumultuous period of moral decline and tribal conflicts, following the conquest of the Promised Land. After a brutal civil war triggered by a horrific crime involving a Levite's concubine, the other tribes of Israel nearly wiped out the tribe of Benjamin, including most of their women, leaving the surviving men without potential wives. The elders of the assembly then grappled with how to preserve Benjamin's lineage without breaking prior oaths.
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