Jueces 21:14

14 Entonces los hombres de Benjamín volvieron a sus hogares y recibieron como esposas a las cuatrocientas mujeres de Jabes de Galaad, a quienes se les había perdonado la vida. Pero no hubo suficientes mujeres para todos los hombres.

Jueces 21:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 21:14

And Benjamin came again at that time
The six hundred Benjaminites returned with the messengers at the same time to the people of Israel, putting confidence in the assurances they had given them of peace and safety:

and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of
Jabeshgilead;
in doing which they supposed they had not violated their oath, since though they had sworn that they would not give their own daughters, they had not sworn they would not give the daughters of others; and besides, as the men of Jabeshgilead were not at Mizpeh when the oaths were made, they had taken none, and so their daughters might be given in marriage to the Benjaminites, notwithstanding that oath:

and yet so they sufficed them not;
there were not wives enough for them all; for they were six hundred men, whereas the daughters of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead were but four hundred, so that there were two hundred more wanting. Abarbinel interprets the word we render "so" in a different manner, by "right", as in ( Numbers 27:7 ) and gives the sense thus, that it was not a point of justice and judgment to do this to the daughters of Jabeshgilead, namely, to save and give them in marriage; but they did this because the people repented for Benjamin, as follows.

Jueces 21:14 In-Context

12 Entre los habitantes de Jabes de Galaad, encontraron a cuatrocientas muchachas vírgenes, que nunca se habían acostado con un hombre, y las llevaron al campamento en Silo, que está en la tierra de Canaán.

13 Así que la asamblea de Israel envió una delegación de paz a los hombres que habían quedado de Benjamín, y que estaban viviendo en la roca de Rimón.

14 Entonces los hombres de Benjamín volvieron a sus hogares y recibieron como esposas a las cuatrocientas mujeres de Jabes de Galaad, a quienes se les había perdonado la vida. Pero no hubo suficientes mujeres para todos los hombres.

15 El pueblo sintió lástima por Benjamín, porque el Señor
había dejado un vacío en las tribus de Israel.

16 A raíz de eso, los ancianos de la asamblea preguntaron: «¿Cómo podemos conseguir esposas para los pocos que quedan, ya que las mujeres de la tribu de Benjamín están muertas?