Judges 21:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.

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  • Judg 21:6 : 6 And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
  • Judg 21:17 : 17 And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,
  • 1 Chr 13:11 : 11 And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day.
  • 1 Chr 15:13 : 13 For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5And 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.

    6And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

    7What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

  • Judg 21:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    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?

    17And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,

    18Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

  • Judg 21:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

    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 21:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.

    2And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

    3And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?

  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    77%

    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.

    11So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.

    12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

    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,

  • Judg 21:20-24
    5 verses
    76%

    20And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,

    21And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.

    22And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

    23So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.

    24Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.

  • Judg 20:3
    75%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.

  • Judg 20:41-42
    2 verses
    75%

    41And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for they saw that evil had overtaken them.

    42So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

  • Judg 20:20-25
    6 verses
    74%

    20And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

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

    22But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.

    23Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and saying, Am I to go forward again to the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.

    24So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.

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

  • Judg 20:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:48
    71%

    48And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.

  • Josh 22:21
    71%

    21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,

  • Exod 32:14
    70%

    14So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    70%

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

  • Num 1:37
    70%

    37Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    69%

    7And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

  • Josh 22:15
    69%

    15And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,

  • Num 31:16
    69%

    16It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

  • Judg 20:45
    69%

    45And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.

  • Judg 20:5
    68%

    5And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.