Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 21:12
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Judges21:12
12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead, four hundred young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Not Married, yet marriageable: it is probable, there were other and younger Virgins; but whether they were slain or spared, Scripture determines not, and the Learned do not agree. But these could not serve the present and urgent occasion, and therefore he takes notice onely of these 400 which were of riper Age.
Marginal references: Heb. young women Virgins.
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