World English Bible
Judges 21:15
“The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.”
Verse in context — 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.
14
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.
15
The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16
Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
17
They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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