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


In Context

14 and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for all of them so.

15 And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

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

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

18 and we — we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed is he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'

19 And they say, 'Lo, a festival of Jehovah is in Shiloh, from time to time, which is on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17They said, |There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be 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.