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They said, “Why, O Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel? An entire[a] tribe has disappeared from Israel today!”

The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace.[b] The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?”They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:3 tn Heb “one.”
  2. Judges 21:4 tn Or “peace offerings.”
  3. Judges 21:5 tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”