Judges 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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Gill's Exposition
Then the elders of the congregation said.... This being the case, that there were not wives enough for them, they were obliged to consult again, and consider of another expedient to provide for them;…
We have here the method that was taken to provide the 200 Benjamites that remained with wives. And, though the tribe was reduced to a small number, they were only in care to provide each man with one…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the elders of the congregation See on Jdg 20:1, and cf. Lev 4:15. That this half of the verse does not belong to the old story is further shewn by the reference to wives for the Benjamites who had not…