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Selected Verse: Judges 21:21 - Strong Concordance

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Jud 21:21 Strong Concordance And see [07200], and, behold, if the daughters [01323] of Shiloh [07887] come out [03318] to dance [02342] in dances [04246], then come ye out [03318] of the vineyards [03754], and catch [02414] you every man [0376] his wife [0802] of the daughters [01323] of Shiloh [07887], and go [01980] to the land [0776] of Benjamin [01144].
  King James And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances--The dance was anciently a part of the religious observance. It was done on festive occasions, as it is still in the East, not in town, but in the open air, in some adjoining field, the women being by themselves. The young women being alone indulging their light and buoyant spirits, and apprehensive of no danger, facilitated the execution of the scheme of seizing them, which closely resembles the Sabine rape in Roman history. The elders undertook to reconcile the families to the forced abduction of their daughters. And thus the expression of their public sanction to this deed of violence afforded a new evidence of the evils and difficulties into which the unhappy precipitancy of the Israelites in this crisis had involved them.

 
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