How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.

What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?|

what do we do for them, for those who are left, for wives, and we, we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

From where shall they receive wives? For we have all sworn in common that we will not give our daughters to them."

How shall we do for wives for them - From this it appears that they had destroyed all the Benjamitish women and children! They had set out with the purpose of exterminating the whole tribe, and therefore they massacred the women, that if any of the men escaped, they might neither find wife nor daughter; and they bound themselves under an oath not to give any of their females to any of the remnant of this tribe, that thus the whole tribe might utterly perish.

How shall we do for wives for them that remain,.... By which it seems, as well as by what is after related, that they knew of the six hundred men hid in the rock Rimmon:
seeing we have sworn by the Lord; by the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; and such an oath with them was a sacred thing, and to be kept inviolable, even to their own hurt:
that we will not give them of our daughters to wives; as in Judges 21:1 and therefore they must either marry among the Heathens, which was forbidden, or they must make void their oath, or the tribe in a little time would be extinct; these were difficulties they knew not how to surmount, and this was the object of their inquiry.