16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?


In Context

13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.

14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin.

Judges 21:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:16And the elders of the assembly said, "With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:16And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, |What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, |How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16And the elders of the company say, 'What do we do to the remnant for wives — for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'