“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?”
Israel's invocation of their oath to provide no daughters to Benjamin in marriage creates the central problem of chapter 21: they have pursued covenant justice and tribal accountability, yet in doing so have created a circumstance where Benjamin faces extinction through inability to secure wives for reproduction. The oath, though created in the passion of conflict, now reveals the unintended but severe consequences of their comprehensive approach to justice. This verse establishes the tension that the remainder of the chapter must somehow resolve.
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