The other 11 tribes had sworn, perhaps rashly, they would not give their daughters to the men of Benjamin.

With the war now ended, they went up to the house of God and wept. They were concerned that a tribe was now missing from the 12. The next morning, they offered sacrifices to God and inquired of one another to determine who had not come up to the assembly at Mizpah. Jabesh in Gilead had not come up, Song of Solomon 12,000 fighting men went against that city and struck it with the sword, sparing only female virgins. The four hundred who were found were given to the remaining men of Benjamin (21:1-13).

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