1 a This othe came of rashenes and not of judgement for after they brake it, in shewing secretly the meanes to mary with certaine of their daughters.
1 ! The Israelites sweare that they wil not mary their daughters to Benjamites.
4 b According to their custome, when they wolde consult with the Lord.
6 c Or, repented that they had destroied their brethren, as appeareth {vers. 15}.
8 d Condemning them to be fauters of vice, which wolde not put their hand to punish it.
10 ! They stay them of Jabesh Gilead, and giue their virgines to the Benjamites.
10 / Ebr. children of strength.
13 e To wit, about four monethes after the discomfiture, {Chap. 20, 47}.
14 f For there lacked two hundreth.
17 g Benjamin must be reserued to haue the twelft portion in the inheritance of Jaakob.
19 h He describeth the place where the maides vsed yerely to dance, as the maner then was & to syng Psalmes and songs of Gods workes emongs them.
21 ! The Benjamites take the daughters of Shiloh.
22 i Thogh they thoght hereby to persuade men that they kept their othe, yet before God it was broken.
23 k Meaning two hundreth.