1. Judges 21:18 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the elders’ form of the curse recall?

Judges 21:18 (ESV)

18 Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”

The elders note that they cannot give their own daughters as wives for the remaining Benjamites, given the curse, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin. This form of the curse recalls Deuteronomy 27:15–16.1