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11 You’re to completely destroy every man and every married woman.”[a]

12 They discovered among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who hadn’t had sex with a man, and they brought them to the encampment at Shiloh in the territory of Canaan. 13 Then the entire congregation sent for the surviving[b] descendants of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon and assured them that their intentions toward them were peaceful.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:11 Lit. woman who has had sexual relations with a man
  2. Judges 21:13 The Heb. lacks surviving
  3. Judges 21:13 Lit. and proclaimed peace