Chapter 21
1 Now the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had sworn in Mitzpah [Watchtower] , saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] to wife.
2 And the people came to the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , and abode there till even before God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
3 And said, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , why is this come to pass in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ?
4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said, Who [is there] among all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to Mitzpah [Watchtower] , saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6 And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] repented them for Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] this day.
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
8 And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that came not up to Mitzpah [Watchtower] to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Yavesh-Gil’ad [Dry Hill of Testimony] to the assembly.
9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil’ad [Dry Hill of Testimony] there.
10 And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil’ad [Dry Hill of Testimony] with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
11 And this [is] the thing that you 2f shall do, You 2f shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain by man.
12 And they found among the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil’ad [Dry Hill of Testimony] four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh [Place of Rest] , which [is] in the land of Kena’an [Merchant] .
13 And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] that [were] in the rock Rimmon [Pomegranate] , and to call peaceably unto them.
14 And Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Yavesh-Gil’ad [Dry Hill of Testimony] : and yet so they sufficed them not.
15 And the people repented them for Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] , because that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had made a breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet) in the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .
16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] ?
17 And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them that be escaped of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] , that a tribe be not destroyed out of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .
18 However we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that gives a wife to Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] .
19 Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Shiloh [Place of Rest] yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side of Beit-El [House of God] , on the east side of the highway that goes up from Beit-El [House of God] to Sh’khem [Shoulder] , and on the south of Levonah [Frankincense] .
20 Therefore they commanded the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] , saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh [Place of Rest] come out to dance in dances, then come you 2f out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh [Place of Rest] , and go to the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] .
22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for you 2f did not give unto them at this time, [that] you 2f should be guilty.
23 And the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] did so, and took [them] wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
24 And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
25 In those days [there was] no king in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] : every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.