17They said, |There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.


In Context

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.

18 However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'|

19 They said, |Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.|

Judges 21:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:17The Benjamite survivors must have heirs," they said, "so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, |There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that have escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17And they say, 'A possession of an escaped party is to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.