They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
The annual feast of Yahweh was probably the Passover ". . . as the dances of the daughters of Shiloh was apparently an imitation of the dances of the Israelitish women at the Red Sea under the superintendency of Miriam (Ex. xv. 20)." [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, pp. 461-62.] Another possibility is that this was the Feast of Tabernacles ". . . in the time of the vintage-harvest." [Note: Cundall and Morris, p. 212.] A third option is that it was a festival of the Israelites’ own making. [Note: Block, Judges . . ., p. 580.] 