Judges 21:19-23

Wives Provided for the Tribe of Benjamin

¹⁹ So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of _z the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah." ²⁰ And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards ²¹ and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to _a dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. ²² And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'" ²³ And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance _b and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.

1. Cross References
   Judges 20:31
   And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
   
2. Cross References
   Judges 11:34
   Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
   Exodus 15:20
   Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
   
3. Cross References
   Judges 20:48
   And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.