World English Bible
Judges 21:13
“The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.”
Verse in context — Judges 21
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.
They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.
The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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