Judges 21:1-3

New Century Version

Wives for the Men of Benjamin

21 At Mizpah the men of Israel had sworn, “Not one of us will let his daughter marry a man from the tribe of Benjamin.”

² The people went to the city of Bethel and sat before God until evening, crying loudly. ³ They said, “Lord, God of Israel, why has this terrible thing happened to us so that one tribe of Israel is missing today?”