Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.
"And the children of Israel said, Who is there of all the tribes of Israel that came not up ... to Mizpah?"   (Judges 21:5).  It is obvious that the Israelites, by this inquiry, were already on the way to what they hoped would be a means of getting wives for Benjamin.