Judges 21:7
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New International Version (©2011)
"How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
How can we find wives for the few who remain, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
What should we do about wives for the survivors? We've sworn to the LORD not to give them any of our daughters as wives."

International Standard Version (©2012)
What can we do to find wives for the survivors who remain, since we've already taken an oath in the LORD's presence not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

NET Bible (©2006)
How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD's name not to give them our daughters as wives."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
What will we do to provide wives for the men who are left? We swore to the LORD that we would not let any of our daughters marry them."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
What shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters as wives?

American King James Version
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

American Standard Version
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.

Darby Bible Translation
What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?"

English Revised Version
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Webster's Bible Translation
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD, that we will not give them of our daughters for wives?

World English Bible
How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

Young's Literal Translation
what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How shall we do for wives for them that remain,.... By which it seems, as well as by what is after related, that they knew of the six hundred men hid in the rock Rimmon:

seeing we have sworn by the Lord; by the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; and such an oath with them was a sacred thing, and to be kept inviolable, even to their own hurt:

that we will not give them of our daughters to wives; as in Judges 21:1 and therefore they must either marry among the Heathens, which was forbidden, or they must make void their oath, or the tribe in a little time would be extinct; these were difficulties they knew not how to surmount, and this was the object of their inquiry.

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Mourning the Tribe of Benjamin
…5And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death. 6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Judges 21:1 The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: "Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite."
Judges 21:6 Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel," they said.
Judges 21:8 Then they asked, "Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah?" They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.