Judges 21:6-9

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⁶ There was deep sadness throughout all Israel for the loss of their brother tribe, Benjamin.

“Gone,” they kept saying to themselves, “gone—an entire tribe of Israel has been cut off and is gone. ⁷ And how shall we get wives for the few who remain, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters?”

^8-9 Then they thought again of their oath to kill anyone who refused to come to Mizpah and discovered that no one had attended from Jabesh-gilead.