Judges 21:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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?

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  • Deut 29:24 : 24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?
  • Josh 7:7-9 : 7 And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan! 8 O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers? 9 For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
  • Ps 80:12 : 12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
  • Prov 19:3 : 3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
  • Isa 63:17 : 17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

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  • Judg 21:4-8
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    75%

    4 Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.

    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.

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

    7 What 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.

    8 And 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.

  • Judg 21:2
    72%

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

  • Judg 21:15-17
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    15 And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.

    16 Then 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?

    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,

  • 2 Kgs 17:18
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    18 So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.

  • Judg 20:12
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    12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

  • Josh 22:21
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    21 Then 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,

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
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    10 And the king of Israel said, Here is trouble: for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them into the hands of Moab.

  • 1 Kgs 11:32
    69%

    32 (But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, out of all the tribes of Israel, I have made mine,)

  • 2 Chr 15:3
    69%

    3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

  • Josh 22:14-16
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    68%

    14 And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.

    15 And 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,

    16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

  • Judg 20:3
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    68%

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

  • Jer 3:21
    68%

    21 A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

  • Josh 18:2
    68%

    2 But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    68%

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

  • Judg 20:27
    67%

    27 And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,

  • Judg 18:1
    67%

    1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:3
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    3 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    67%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

  • Judg 6:13
    67%

    13 Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
    67%

    20 Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

  • Amos 3:1
    67%

    1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 2 Sam 21:3
    67%

    3 So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?

  • Jer 16:10
    67%

    10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • 1 Kgs 22:17
    67%

    17 Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.

  • Josh 7:7
    67%

    7 And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!

  • Hos 3:4
    66%

    4 For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

  • Josh 21:1
    66%

    1 Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;

  • 1 Sam 9:21
    66%

    21 And Saul said, Am I not a man of Benjamin, the smallest of all the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of the families of Benjamin? why then do you say these words to me?

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    66%

    3 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

  • Ezra 9:15
    66%

    15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

  • Josh 7:14
    66%

    14 So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, man by man.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3 Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

  • Num 27:4
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    4 Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

  • Josh 17:14
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    14 Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
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    22 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.

  • 1 Sam 4:3
    66%

    3 And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.

  • Isa 63:17
    66%

    17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

  • Deut 29:21
    66%

    21 He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.

  • Ezek 47:21
    66%

    21 You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.

  • Neh 13:11
    66%

    11 Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.

  • 1 Chr 17:21
    66%

    21 And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt?