Judges 21:7

Judges 21:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
• New International Version (NIV)“How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the Lord not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”
• English Standard Version (ESV)What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?"
• New King James Version (NKJV)What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters as wives?”

Context of Judges 21:7

5Then the Israelites asked, ‘Which people from Israel's tribes did not join us when we all met together at Mizpah?’ They asked this because they had made a serious promise at Mizpah. They had said, ‘We must punish with death anyone who does not join us here to meet with the Lord.’ 6The Israelites were very upset about what had happened to Benjamin's tribe. They said, ‘We have destroyed a whole tribe of Israel. They were our relatives. How can we find women to marry the few men who are left? We all made a serious promise to the Lord that we would not let them marry our daughters.’ 8So they asked, ‘When we met with the Lord at Mizpah, which people from all Israel's tribes did not come with us?’ They realized that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the meeting. 9When they had counted the people, there had been no men from Jabesh Gilead among them.

Judges 21:7 word by word

מַה־נַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לָהֶ֛ם לַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים לְנָשִׁ֑ים וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ נִשְׁבַּ֣עְנוּ בַֽיהוָ֔ה לְבִלְתִּ֛י תֵּת־לָהֶ֥ם מִבְּנוֹתֵ֖ינוּ לְנָשִֽׁים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• How shall we doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• for wivesאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: wifeH802
• for them that remainיָתַרyâthar · to remainH3498
• seeing we have swornשָׁבַעshâba‛ · to swearH7650
• by the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• that we will not giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: give(marriage)H5414
• them of our daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323

Cross-references for Judges 21:7

• Judges 1:18Judah's men also took for themselves the cities of Gaza, Ashkelon and Ekron, as well as the land around those cities.
• 1 Samuel 14:28One of the soldiers told Jonathan, ‘Your father made us promise not to eat any food today. We all agreed that God should curse anyone who eats anything. That is why we are all so weak.’

Commentaries on Judges 21:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7How shall we do for wives for them - From this it appears that they had destroyed all the Benjamitish women and children! They had set out with the purpose of exterminating the whole tribe, and therefore they massacred the women, that if any of the men escaped, they might neither find wife nor daughter; and they bound themselves under an oath not to give any of their females to any of the remnant of this tribe, that thus the whole tribe might utterly…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-25These two epilogues (Judges 17–18 and 19–21) show that inspired but unstructured leadership cannot last. As society moved toward chaos and civil war, the phrase, In those days there was no king in Israel appears four times. The phrase, everyone did what was right in his own eyes is added twice (Judges 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25). The era of inspired leadership declined and ended in disorder. Something important was missing.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-152-5. the people came to the house of God, ... and lifted up their voices, and wept sore--The characteristic fickleness of the Israelites was not long in being displayed; for scarcely had they cooled from the fierceness of their sanguinary vengeance, than they began to relent and rushed to the opposite extreme of self-accusation and grief at the desolation which their impetuous zeal had produced. Their victory saddened and humbled them. Their feelings on…Read the comment

Topics related to Judges 21:7

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In the dictionaries

• JabeshGilead
• Spring
• Wolf
• Israel, History of
• Jabesh-Gilead
• Judges, Book of
• Judges, Period of
• Oath

Commentaries on Judges 21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary