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Judges 21:22 KJV
Judges · chapter 21 · verse 22
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.Judges 21:22 · King James Version
Judges 21:22 in context
20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
24And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- favourablechânanproperly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferiorH2603 →
- brethrenʼâcha brother )H251 →
- complainrîybproperly, to tossH7378 →
- reservedlâqachto takeH3947 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- comebôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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We have here the method that was taken to provide the 200 Benjamites that remained with wives. And, though the tribe was reduced to a small number, they were only in care to provide each man with one wife, not with more under pretence of multiplying them the faster.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-25