1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, |There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.|


In Context

1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, |There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.|

2 The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

3 They said, |Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

Judges 21:1 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:1The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: "Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Maspha, saying: None of us shall give of his daughters to the children of Benjamin to wife.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, |No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:1And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, 'None of us doth give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin to wife.