A moment in scripture
Judges 21:1
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Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
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The surrounding passage
- Judges 21:2
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
- Judges 21:3
And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.