'Survivors' in the Bible

The survivors came down to the nobles;the Lord’s people came down to me with the warriors.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

What should we do about wives for the survivors? We’ve sworn to the Lord not to give them any of our daughters as wives.”

So the survivors of the tribe of Benjamin returned at that time, and the Israelis gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the raid on Jabesh-gilead. Even so, there weren't enough for them.

So the elders of the congregation asked, "What will we do to obtain wives for the survivors, since the women of Benjamin have been devastated?"

They said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.