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1이스라엘 사람들이 미스바에서 맹세하여 이르기를 우리 중에 누구든지 딸을 베냐민 사람에게 아내로 주지 아니하리라 하였더라 2백성이 벧엘에 이르러 거기서 저녁까지 하나님 앞에 앉아서 대성 통곡하여 3가로되 이스라엘의 하나님 여호와여 오늘날 이스라엘 중에 어찌하여 한 지파가 이즈러졌나이까 하더니 4이튿날에 백성이 일찍이 일어나서 거기 한 단을 쌓고 번제와 화목제를 드렸더라 5이스라엘 자손이 가로되 이스라엘 온 지파 중에 총회와 함께 하여 여호와 앞에 올라오지 아니한 자가 누구뇨 하니 이는 그들이 크게 맹세하기를 미스바에 와서 여호와 앞에 이르지 아니하는 자는 반드시 죽일 것이라 하였음이라 6이스라엘 자손이 그 형제 베냐민을 위하여 뉘우쳐 가로되 오늘날 이스라엘 중에 한 지파가 끊쳤도다 7그 남은 자들에게 우리가 어떻게 하면 아내를 얻게 하리요 우리가 전에 여호와로 맹세하여 우리 딸을 그들의 아내로 주지 아니하리라 하였도다 8또 가로되 이스라엘 지파 중 미스바에 올라와서 여호와께 이르지 아니한 자가 누구뇨 하고 본즉 야베스 길르앗에서는 한 사람도 진에 이르러 총회에 참여치 아니하였으니 9백성을 계수할 때에 야베스 길르앗 거민이 하나도 거기 없음을 보았음이라 10회중이 큰 용사 일만 이천을 그리로 보내며 그들에게 명하여 가로되 가서 야베스 길르앗 거민과 및 부녀와 어린 아이를 칼날로 치라 11너희의 행할 일은 모든 남자와 남자와 잔 여자를 진멸할 것이니라 하였더니 12그들이 야베스 길르앗 거민 중에서 젊은 처녀 사백 인을 얻었으니 이는 아직 남자와 자지 아니하여서 남자를 알지 못하는 자라 그들이 실로 진으로 끌어 오니라 이는 가나안 땅이더라 13온 회중이 림몬 바위에 있는 베냐민 자손에게 보내어 평화를 공포하게 하였더니 14그 때에 베냐민이 돌아온지라 이에 이스라엘 사람이 야베스 길르앗 여인 중에서 살려둔 여자를 그들에게 주었으나 오히려 부족하므로 15백성들이 베냐민을 위하여 뉘우쳤으니 이는 여호와께서 이스라엘 지파들 중에 한 지파가 궐이 나게 하셨음이더라 16회중 장로들이 가로되 베냐민의 여인이 다 멸절되었으니 이제 그 남은 자들에게 어떻게 하여야 아내를 얻게 할꼬 17또 가로되 베냐민의 도망하여 면한 자에게 마땅히 기업이 있어야 하리니 그리하면 이스라엘 중에 한 지파가 사라짐이 없으리라 18그러나 우리가 우리의 딸을 그들의 아내로 주지 못하리니 이는 이스라엘 자손이 맹세하여 이르기를 딸을 베냐민에게 아내로 주는 자는 저주를 받으리라 하였음이로다 19또 가로되 보라 벧엘 북편, 르보나 남편 벧엘에서 세겜으로 올라가는 큰 길 동편 실로에 매년 여호와의 절기가 있도다 하고 20베냐민 자손에게 명하여 가로되 가서 포도원에 숨어 21보다가 실로의 여자들이 무도하러 나오거든 너희는 포도원에서 나와서 실로의 딸 중에서 각각 그 아내로 붙들어 가지고 베냐민 땅으로 돌아가라 22만일 그 아비나 형제가 와서 우리에게 쟁론하면 우리가 그에게 말하기를 청컨대 너희는 우리에게 은혜를 베풀어 그들을 우리에게 줄지니라 이는 우리가 전쟁할 때에 각 사람을 위하여 그 아내를 얻어 주지 못하였고 너희가 자의로 그들에게 준것이 아니니 너희에게 죄가 없을 것임이니라 하겠노라 하매 23베냐민 자손이 그같이 행하여 춤추는 여자 중에서 자기들의 수효대로 아내로 붙들어 가지고 자기 기업에 돌아가서 성읍들을 중건하고 거기 거하니라 24그 때에 이스라엘 자손이 그곳을 떠나 각각 그 지파, 그 가족에게로 돌아가되 곧 각각 그곳에서 나와서 자기 기업으로 돌아갔더라 25그 때에 이스라엘에 왕이 없으므로 사람이 각각 그 소견에 옳은 대로 행하였더라

1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.” 2The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely. 3They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?” 4On the next day, the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 5The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.” 6The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?” 8They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly. 9For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. 10The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. 11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.” 12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 13The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. 14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren’t enough for them. 15The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. 16Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” 17They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. 18However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’” 19They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.” 20They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards, 21and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. 22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’” 23The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them. 24The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance. 25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

1De mannen van Israel nu hadden te Mizpa gezworen, zeggende: Niemand van ons zal zijn dochter aan de Benjaminieten ter vrouwe geven. 2Zo kwam het volk tot het huis Gods, en zij bleven daar tot op den avond, voor Gods aangezicht; en zij hieven hun stem op en weenden met groot geween. 3En zeiden: O HEERE, God van Israel! Waarom is dit geschied in Israel, dat er heden een stam van Israel gemist wordt? 4En het geschiedde des anderen daags, dat zich het volk vroeg opmaakte, en bouwde aldaar een altaar; en zij offerden brandofferen en dankofferen. 5En de kinderen Israels zeiden: Wie is er, die niet is opgekomen in de vergadering uit al de stammen van Israel tot den HEERE? Want er was een grote eed geschied aangaande dengene, die niet opkwam tot den HEERE te Mizpa, zeggende: Hij zal zekerlijk gedood worden. 6En het berouwde den kinderen Israels over Benjamin, hun broeder; en zij zeiden: Heden is een stam van Israel afgesneden. 7Wat zullen wij, belangende de vrouwen, doen aan degenen, die overgebleven zijn? Want wij hebben bij den HEERE gezworen, dat wij hun van onze dochteren geen tot vrouwen zullen geven. 8En zij zeiden: Is er iemand van de stammen van Israel, die niet opgekomen is tot den HEERE te Mizpa? En ziet, van Jabes in Gilead was niemand opgekomen in het leger, tot de gemeente. 9Want het volk werd geteld, en ziet, er was niemand van de inwoners van Jabes in Gilead. 10Toen zond de vergadering daarheen twaalf duizend mannen, van de strijdbaarste; en zij geboden hun, zeggende: Trekt heen, en slaat met de scherpte des zwaards de inwoners van Jabes in Gilead, met de vrouwen en de kinderkens. 11Doch dit is de zaak, die gij doen zult; al wat mannelijk is, en alle vrouwen, die de bijligging eens mans bekend hebben, zult gij verbannen. 12En zij vonden onder de inwoners van Jabes in Gilead vierhonderd jonge dochters, die maagden waren, die geen man bekend hadden in bijligging des mans; en zij brachten die in het leger te Silo, dewelke is in het land Kanaan. 13Toen zond de ganse vergadering heen, en sprak tot de kinderen van Benjamin, die in den rotssteen van Rimmon waren, en zij riepen hen vrede toe. 14Alzo kwamen de Benjaminieten ter zelfder tijd weder; en zij gaven hun de vrouwen, die zij in het leven behouden hadden van de vrouwen van Jabes in Gilead; maar alzo waren er nog niet genoeg voor hen. 15Toen berouwde het den volke over Benjamin, omdat de HEERE een scheur gemaakt had in de stammen van Israel. 16En de oudsten der vergadering zeiden: Wat zullen wij, belangende de vrouwen, doen aan degenen, die overgebleven zijn? Want de vrouwen zijn uit Benjamin verdelgd. 17Wijders zeiden zij: De erfenis dergenen, die ontkomen zijn, is van Benjamin, en er moet geen stam uitgedelgd worden uit Israel. 18Maar wij zullen hun geen vrouwen van onze dochteren kunnen geven; want de kinderen Israels hebben gezworen, zeggende: Vervloekt zij, die de Benjaminieten een vrouw geeft! 19Toen zeiden zij: Ziet, er is een feest des HEEREN te Silo, van jaar tot jaar, dat gehouden wordt tegen het noorden van het huis Gods, tegen den opgang der zon, aan den hogen weg, die opgaat van het huis Gods naar Sichem, en tegen het zuiden van Lebona. 20En zij geboden den kinderen van Benjamin, zeggende: Gaat heen, en loert in de wijngaarden. 21En let er op, en ziet, als de dochters van Silo zullen uitgegaan zijn om met reien te dansen, zo komt gij voort uit de wijngaarden, en schaakt u, een ieder zijn huisvrouw, uit de dochteren van Silo; en gaat heen in het land van Benjamin. 22En het zal geschieden, wanneer haar vaders of haar broeders zullen komen, om voor ons te rechten, dat wij tot hen zullen zeggen: Zijt hun om onzentwil genadig, omdat wij geen huisvrouw voor een ieder van hen in deze krijg genomen hebben; want gijlieden hebt ze hun niet gegeven, dat gij te dezer tijd schuldig zoudt zijn. 23En de kinderen van Benjamin deden alzo, en voerden naar hun getal vrouwen weg, van de reiende dochters, die zij roofden, en zij togen heen, en keerden weder tot hun erfenis, en herbouwden de steden, en woonden daarin. 24Ook togen de kinderen Israels te dier tijd van daar, een iegelijk naar zijn stam en naar zijn geslacht; alzo togen zij uit van daar, een iegelijk naar zijn erfenis. 25In die dagen was er geen koning in Israel; een iegelijk deed, wat recht was in zijn ogen.