Judges · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Judges 21 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 Now the children of Israel swore in Mizpah, saying, No man of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
2 And the people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God: and they lifted up their voice and wept with a great weeping;
2 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
3 and said, Wherefore, O Lord God of Israel, has this come to pass, that today one tribe should be counted [as missing] from Israel?
3 They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”
4 And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose up early, and built there an altar, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace offerings.
4 On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? for there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
5 The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
6 And the children of Israel relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.
6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
7 What shall we do for wives for the rest that remain? whereas we have sworn by the Lord, not to give them of our daughters for wives.
7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
8 And they said, What one [man is there] of the tribes of Israel, who went not up to the Lord to Mizpah? and, behold, no man came to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
8 They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
9 And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.
9 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go ye and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword.
10 The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
11 And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote [to destruction], but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.
11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13 And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Rimmon, and invited them to [make] peace.
13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
14 And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they [had] saved alive of the daughters of Jabesh-gilead; and they were content.
14 Benjamin 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.
15 And the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16 And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.
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?”
17 And they said, [There must be] an inheritance of them that are escaped of Benjamin; and [so] a tribe shall not be destroyed out of Israel.
17 They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
18 For we shall not be able to give them wives of our daughters, because we swore among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed [is] he that gives a wife to Benjamin.
18 However, 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.’”
19 And they said, Lo! now [there is] a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and from the south of Lebonah.
19 They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
20 And they charged the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
20 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
21 and ye shall see; and lo! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Shiloh to dance in dances, then shall ye go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go ye into the land of Benjamin.
21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22 And it shall come to pass, when their fathers or their brethren come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, Grant them freely to us, for we have not taken every man his wife in the battle: because ye did not give to them according to the occasion, ye transgressed.
22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
23 And the children of Benjamin did so; and they took wives according to their number from the dancers whom they seized: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
24 And the children of Israel went thence at that time every man to his tribe and his kindred; and they went thence every man to his inheritance.
24 The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
25 And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own sight.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Judges 20:1; Acts 23:12; Judges 21:18; Mark 6:23; Ecclesiastes 5:2
- 2 Judges 20:26; Judges 20:18; 1 Samuel 30:4; Judges 20:23; Joshua 18:1
- 3 Psalm 80:12; Jeremiah 12:1; Joshua 7:7–9; Psalm 74:1; Deuteronomy 29:24
- 4 2 Samuel 24:25; Judges 6:26; Hosea 5:15; Exodus 20:24–25; 2 Samuel 24:18
- 5 Judges 5:23; Jeremiah 48:10; Leviticus 27:28–29; Judges 21:18; Judges 21:1
- 6 Judges 21:15; Judges 20:23; 2 Samuel 2:26; Judges 11:35; Hosea 11:8
- 7 Judges 21:1; Judges 21:18; 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Samuel 14:28–29
- 8 1 Samuel 31:11–13; 1 Samuel 11:1–3; 2 Samuel 2:5–6
- 10 1 Samuel 11:7; Judges 21:5; Judges 5:23; Joshua 7:24; Deuteronomy 13:15
- 11 Numbers 31:17–18; Deuteronomy 2:34
- 12 Joshua 18:1; Psalm 78:60; Jeremiah 7:12; Judges 20:18; Judges 20:23
- 13 Deuteronomy 20:10; Judges 20:47; Ephesians 2:17; Luke 10:5; Joshua 15:32
- 14 1 Corinthians 7:2; Judges 20:47; Judges 21:12
- 15 Judges 21:6; 1 Chronicles 15:13; 1 Chronicles 13:11; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 58:12
- 17 Numbers 26:55; Numbers 36:7
- 18 Judges 21:1; Judges 11:35
- 19 Psalm 81:3; Exodus 23:14–16; Deuteronomy 16:1; Judges 18:31; John 5:1
- 21 Judges 11:34; Exodus 15:20; Jeremiah 31:13; Psalm 150:4; Luke 17:25
- 22 Judges 21:1; Judges 21:18; Mark 10:6–8; Proverbs 20:25; Judges 21:7
- 23 Judges 20:48
- 25 Deuteronomy 12:8; Proverbs 3:5; Judges 17:6; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Proverbs 14:12
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