Judges 21:1-3

International Standard Version

The Israelis Mourn the Tribe of Benjamin

21 Now the people of Israel had taken a vow in Mizpah that went like this: “Not even one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a descendant of Benjamin!” ² So the people went to Bethel, sat before God until dusk, where they cried out loud and wept bitterly. ³ “Why, Lord God of Israel,” they asked him, “is one tribe missing^[a] from Israel?”