Jueces 21:14

14 En esa ocasión regresaron los benjaminitas, y les entregaron las mujeres de Jabés Galaad que habían dejado con vida. Pero no hubo mujeres para todos.

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 Jabés Galaad encontraron a cuatrocientas muchachas que no habían tenido relaciones sexuales con ningún hombre, y las llevaron al campamento de Siló, que está en la tierra de Canaán.

13 Entonces toda la comunidad envió una oferta de paz a los benjaminitas que estaban en la peña de Rimón.

14 En esa ocasión regresaron los benjaminitas, y les entregaron las mujeres de Jabés Galaad que habían dejado con vida. Pero no hubo mujeres para todos.

15 El pueblo todavía se afligía por Benjamín, porque el SEÑOR había dejado un vacío en las tribus de Israel.

16 Y los ancianos de la asamblea dijeron: «¿Cómo podemos darles mujeres a los hombres que quedaron, si las mujeres de Benjamín fueron exterminadas?