Judges 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”Judges 21:16 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — ન્યાયાધીશો ૨૧:૧૬
- ત્યારે પ્રજાના વડીલોએ કહ્યું, “બાકી રહેલા બિન્યામીનીઓ માટે આપણે પત્નીઓની વ્યવસ્થા કેવી રીતે કરીશું? કેમ કે બિન્યામીનીઓમાંથી તો સ્ત્રીઓનો નાશ કરવામાં આવ્યો છે”
- हिन्दी — न्यायियों २१:१६
- तब मण्डली के वृद्ध लोगों ने कहा, “बिन्यामीनी स्त्रियाँ नाश हुई हैं, तो बचे हुए पुरुषों के लिये स्त्री पाने का हम क्या उपाय करें?”
In context
14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
15The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
17They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
18However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”
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