Read Judges 21.15-25
In verses 15-25: Capturing wives at Shiloh.
In verse 17: Although not blotted out, Benjamin remained one of the smaller tribes.
In verse 21: This may reflect an on-going custom of obtaining wives by ritualized capture at the annual festival at Shiloh.
In verse 22: Brothers are the natural protectors of their unmarried sisters (Song 8.8-9), and fathers would lose financially if marriage bypassed the usual negotiations.
In verse 25: Rape, civil war, genocide-all result because Israel had no king.
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