Judges 21:1 (YLT)

Passage

And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, `None of us doth give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.'

Nearby Context

Judges 21:1 And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, `None of us doth give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.'

Judges 21:2 And the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep--a great weeping,

Judges 21:3 and say, `Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel--to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "israel", "sworn", "mizpeh", "saying", "none", "doth", "give", and "daughter". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "israel" and "sworn", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "And the people come in to Beth-El...", so "israel" and "sworn" should be read forward into that movement. In Judges context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "israel" and "sworn" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.