Judges 21:14
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
The closing chapters of Judges, chapters 17 through 21, form its concluding episodes, and this verse belongs to one of those two final episodes, the account of the crime at Gibeah and Benjamin's identification with it. Though standing at the end of the book, those chapters record events from the early part of the period of the judges, so that the continuous story of the book properly ends with chapter 16. That account is a pitiful and fearful record of Israel's backsliding that brought disgrace and punishment upon the nation. Yet alongside that backsliding it also records God's great mercy and goodness.
It portrays a time when clannish loyalty to one's own tribe was counted of greater importance than rendering justice, and conventional hospitality was placed higher than female virtue. That same corrupt condition is still seen today. The record of such backsliding gives no permission to sin and never any excuse for sinning with impunity.