Judges 21:1-3

International Children’s Bible

Wives for the Men of Benjamin

21 At Mizpah the men of Israel had made a promise. This was their promise: “Not one of us will let his daughter marry a man from the tribe of Benjamin.”

² The people went to the city of Bethel. There they sat before God until evening, crying loudly. ³ They said, “Lord, you are the God of Israel. Why has this terrible thing happened to us? Why has one tribe of Israel been taken away?”