JUDGES 21:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.”
The explicit statement that Benjamin needed wives for survival and that the entire tribe would be eliminated without them articulates the stakes that justify departing from the oath restrictions. The narrative urgency created by impending tribal extinction provides the moral justification for the subsequent breach of their earlier commitment. This verse establishes that preserving a tribe from extinction overrides the maintenance of strict oath observance.
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