Judges 21:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

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  • Judg 5:23 : 23 A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.
  • Judg 21:5 : 5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.
  • 1 Sam 11:7 : 7 And he took two oxen and, cutting them up, sent them through all the land of Israel by the hand of runners, saying, If any man does not come out after Saul and Samuel, this will be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord came on the people and they came out like one man.
  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.
  • Deut 13:15 : 15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.
  • Josh 7:24 : 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.

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  • Judg 21:11-14
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    86%

    11And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

    12Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

    13And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.

    14Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.

  • Judg 21:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.

    9For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

    18But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    76%

    3Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • Deut 20:13-14
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    76%

    13And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

    14But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

  • Josh 6:21
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    21And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

  • Judg 20:21
    74%

    21Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

  • Judg 20:25
    74%

    25And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
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    19And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Judg 20:10
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    10And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

  • Judg 21:16
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    16Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

  • Judg 8:10
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    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

  • Ezek 9:5-6
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    73%

    5And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

    6Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

  • 1 Sam 11:8-10
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    73%

    8And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

    9Then he said to the representatives who had come, Say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is high, you will be made safe. And the representatives came and gave the news to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

    10So the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.

  • Num 31:9
    72%

    9The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

  • Deut 3:6
    72%

    6And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

  • Deut 13:15
    72%

    15Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

  • Judg 20:35
    72%

    35Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

  • 1 Sam 31:11
    72%

    11And when the people of Jabesh-gilead had news of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

  • Judg 20:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

    14And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

  • Num 31:7
    72%

    7And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

  • Judg 20:31
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    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    71%

    1Then about a month after this, Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.

  • Deut 21:10
    71%

    10When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

  • 1 Chr 21:5
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    5And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.

  • Deut 2:34
    71%

    34At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • Judg 3:29
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    29At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

  • Judg 11:32
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    32So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.

  • 1 Sam 11:3
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    3Then the responsible men of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days, so that we may send men to every part of Israel: and then, if no one comes to our help, we will come out to you.

  • 1 Chr 10:11
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    11And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the Philistines had done to Saul,