After seizing, abducting the number of dancers they needed to fill the quota, Benjamin carries them off. They return to their inheritance; and rebuild their towns and live there. This report sounds casual. But we must interpret it in light of the laws of holy war in Deuteronomy 13:13–18. Such laws specified that cities and regions that were destroyed should remain in ruins forever, never to be rebuilt, to warn of the grave consequences of abandoning the covenant standards. Benjamin rebuilds its territory anyway.
23 And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.