Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 21:7
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?
7. wives for them that remain ] Cf. the parallel version in Jdg 21:16.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 7. How shall we do for wives for them] From this it appears that they had destroyed all the Benjamitish women and children! They had set out with the purpose of exterminating the whole tribe, and therefore they massacred the women, that if any of the men escaped, they might neither find wife nor daughter; and they bound themselves under an oath not to give any of their females to any of the remnant of this tribe, that thus the whole tribe might utterly perish.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the 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
Jud 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘ How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give of our daughters to be their wives.?’
They had decided on mercy for the six hundred holed up in the Rock, but the problem now was how to find wives for them without breaking their solemn oath to Yahweh. It is a reminder that we do well to consider carefully before we make promises and take oaths. They are not easily undone. But as such men will they had a solution. Men are always good at wriggling out of inconvenient promises.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
It should seem, that the vengeance taken of the men of Jabesh-gilead, was more with an eye to provide in this manner wives for Benjamin, than to punish them, for not coming up against Gibeah.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jdg 21:7 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?
Ver. 7. How shall we do for wives? &c. ] All this difficulty, say our interpreters, did arise from their gross ignorance in those dark times: for they had no other cause to perplex themselves about their oath, but to stop the outcry of a superstitious conscience: since their oath being wicked, they were not bound at all to keep it, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sworn: Jdg 21:1, Jdg 21:18, 1Sa 14:28, 1Sa 14:29, 1Sa 14:45
Reciprocal: Lev 5:4 – to do evil Jdg 21:22 – give unto Mat 14:9 – the oath’s