And the children of Benjamin 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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the children of Benjamin did so,.... Went and laid wait in the vineyards, and when the daughters of Shiloh came out to dance, they rushed upon them:
and took them wives according to their…
Barnes' Notes
Compare the very similar account of the rape of the Sabine women by the Romero youths at the festival of the Consualia, as related by Livy.
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…
Cambridge Bible
took them wives … carried off Render carried off wives… seized. The expression to take wivesin the sense of marryis found only in late writings; the reference here, however, is not to marriage, but to…