The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.
"Preoccupation with legalistic and technical obedience to certain rules or laws without an accompanying sense of the principles of faithfulness and love that undergird such laws and temper their rigid application is a recipe for disaster." [Note: Dennis T. Olson, "Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections on the Book of Judges," in The New Interpreter’s Bible, 2:887.] 