Judges 21:17

American Standard Version (1901)

And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 26:55 : 55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
  • Num 36:7 : 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:12-16
    5 verses
    86%

    12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

    13And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.

    14And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

    15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

  • Judg 21:5-8
    4 verses
    82%

    5And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

    6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

    7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

    8And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

  • Judg 21:18
    81%

    18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

  • Judg 21:20-24
    5 verses
    77%

    20And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

    21and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

    23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

    24And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

  • Judg 21:1
    77%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

    14And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judg 20:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.

  • Judg 21:3
    71%

    3And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

  • Num 36:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    8And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

    9So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.

  • Judg 20:25
    71%

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 20:3
    71%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?

  • Num 27:4
    70%

    4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

  • Judg 20:39
    70%

    39And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

  • Judg 20:10
    70%

    10and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3And if they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

    4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword.

    36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

  • Josh 17:4
    70%

    4And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of Jehovah he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

  • Num 1:37
    69%

    37those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    69%

    20So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • Judg 20:42
    69%

    42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.

  • Josh 18:2
    69%

    2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

  • Josh 21:17
    69%

    17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,

  • Josh 17:6
    69%

    6because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

  • Josh 22:21
    69%

    21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spake unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

    21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.

  • Deut 25:6
    69%

    6And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

  • Num 27:9
    68%

    9And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

  • Deut 18:2
    68%

    2And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto them.