Judges 21:22
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
Cross-references
Judges 21:1 records the oath not to give daughters to Benjamin, which the scheme in v.22 attempts to circumvent by having the women taken rather than given.
Judges 21:7 poses the problem of finding wives for Benjamin without breaking the oath, and v.22 provides the deceptive solution.
Judges 21:14 shows the earlier attempt to provide wives from Jabesh-gilead was insufficient, leading to the plan in v.22 to take women from Shiloh.
In Judges 21:18, the Israelites swore not to give wives to Benjamin; here they devise a loophole to avoid breaking that oath.
Proverbs 20:25 warns against rash vows, which is exactly the problem created by the oath in Judges 21:18 that this verse addresses.
Mark 10:6-8 cites the creation ordinance of marriage as one flesh, contrasting with the forced abduction in Judges 21:22.