Judges 21

Judges 21:1

Had sworne] This Oath, and Curse, ver. 18. was made in rashnesse, and rage, out of a blinde zeale, and superstitious ignorance; And by Gods Law might and ought to have been broken; And was unlawful to be kept; and much lesse to have fraud, and violent rape, without consent, either of parties, or parents, used, for the keeping of it. Which yet they did, thinking to silence thereby the cry of a superstitious conscience in themselves; and to provide also for the like in those parents of the 200 Virgins, ver. 22.

Judges 21:10

Women] The women, and children, here are unjustly and outragiously slaughtered. Here again rash zeal out-runs right reason.