Judges 21:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 21:15 : 15 And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
  • Hos 11:8 : 8 How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
  • Judg 11:35 : 35 And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.
  • Judg 20:23 : 23 Now 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:12-18
    7 verses
    86%

    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.

    15And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.

    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 21:7-8
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    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.

  • Judg 21:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    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 21:5
    81%

    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.

  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    79%

    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 20:3
    77%

    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 21:20-24
    5 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Josh 22:21
    74%

    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,

  • Judg 20:23-25
    3 verses
    74%

    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 20:30-32
    3 verses
    73%

    30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in fighting order against Gibeah as before.

    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 20:39
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    72%

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

  • Judg 20:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19So the children of Israel got up in the morning and put themselves in position against Gibeah.

    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.

  • Judg 20:41-42
    2 verses
    72%

    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 20:35-36
    2 verses
    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.

    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.

  • Josh 22:15
    71%

    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,

  • Gen 42:21
    71%

    21And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    70%

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

  • Judg 20:48
    70%

    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.

  • Num 1:37
    70%

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

  • Judg 20:17
    70%

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

  • Gen 42:36
    70%

    36And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.