After trying to wipe out every Benjamite from the earth, Israel struggled to keep the Benjamite tribe from extinction. For the 600 Benjamites who survived Israel’s justice massacre, Israel carried out a second massacre to provide wives for the survivors. That plan failed to provide all the wives needed, so another plan of human wisdom was contrived, just as sinful, earthly, and demonic as the first. Human wisdom never produces godliness.
Israel thought, planned, and acted according to what seemed right in their own eyes, which always leads to loss. People become commodities to be used and abused. Children are neglected by drugged out parents. Unborn babies are aborted by self-interested sex. Nations divide, churches split, and families are torn apart. Yet religion grows. This downgrade is described in 2 Timothy 3:1-9. Everyone is pleased but God.

I. The Layout (Judg 21:16-18). Israel found 400 wives for 600 men; they needed 200 more Israelite virgins. The 200 virgins couldn’t be willingly given in marriage from among the other eleven tribes because of a previous agreement.
This story began in chapter 19 with immorality in the home, the first and foundational institution of society established by God for humanity. When government and society undercut and re-define the home, marriage, and child-rearing, society will crumble.

II. A Lie (Judg 21:19-24). Man’s justice is injustice. Israel’s plan to find another 200 virgin wives focused on a yearly festival in Shiloh where the tabernacle was kept. Virgin girls living in Shiloh would perform a dance. None of the feasts given by God included dancing. This was most certainly a drunken pagan festival carried out in the name of the Lord.
When the girls came out to dance in the vineyards, the 200 Benjamin men were allowed to kidnap a girl and return home without consequence. Israel’s leaders weren’t concerned for the women but for the Benjamites and that the girls’ fathers be free from the curse earlier sworn. What began as vengeance for violence against a woman ended with violence against 600 women. Israel exonerated the guilty, but God didn't.
The Benjamites returned home to their inheritance, the real estate God gave them (Num 26:53-54; 33:54; Deut 4:21, 38; Josh 11:23; 21:45). Their inheritance wasn’t salvation of Heaven. Israel failed God, but God was faithful. He keeps His covenants.
Many events in Scripture are descriptive, not prescriptive. These events describe events but do not command them to be reproduced. One great error of many people and movements is turning a descriptive event into a modern event to be copied.

III. The Light (Judg 21:25). Israel believed they were doing right, literally smooth, straight, or pleasing. God says man’s “right” is wrong (Prov 16:25). He was on their lips, but they refused Him any authority in their lives. The opening chapters of Judges give no indication that Israel wanted to, or tried to abandon God. It happened as they compromised with the world around them. That’s our problem today: a desire to compromise with both the truth of God, the Bible, and the God of truth revealed in the Bible.
This is the fourth time in Judges we’re told Israel had no king (Judg 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25). The Book of Judges points us to God’s ultimate and final King: Jesus. Israel rejected her great King, Jesus, about 1,200 years later by choosing a murderer instead of God’s Son (Lk 23:13-25; 19:14). Today, Israel awaits the Second Coming of Jesus to reign.