Judges 21:15

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The people of Israel grieved for Benjamin because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.

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  • Judg 21:6 : 6 The Israelites grieved for Benjamin, their brother, and said, 'Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.'
  • Judg 21:17 : 17 They said, 'The inheritance of the survivors of Benjamin must be preserved, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.'
  • 1 Chr 13:11 : 11 David was angry because the LORD had burst out against Uzza, so he named that place Perez-Uzza, as it is called to this day.
  • 1 Chr 15:13 : 13 For because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, since we did not seek Him according to the proper procedure."
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 'this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.'
  • Isa 58:12 : 12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and raise up the foundations of past generations. You will be called the Repairer of Broken Walls, the Restorer of Streets to Live In.

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  • Judg 21:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5 The Israelites asked, 'Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come up to the assembly of the LORD at Mizpah?' They had made a solemn oath that anyone who did not come before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.

    6 The Israelites grieved for Benjamin, their brother, and said, 'Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.'

    7 'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'

  • Judg 21:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16 The elders of the assembly said, 'What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?'

    17 They said, 'The inheritance of the survivors of Benjamin must be preserved, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.'

    18 'But we cannot give them wives from our own daughters, for we have sworn with a curse that anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin will be cursed.'

  • Judg 21:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

    12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women who were virgins and had not been intimate with a man. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

    13 Then the whole assembly sent a message to the Benjaminites at the rock of Rimmon, and they offered them peace.

    14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave them the women they had spared from Jabesh-Gilead, but there were not enough for all of them.

  • Judg 21:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, 'None of us will give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.'

    2 The people went to Bethel, where they stayed until evening weeping loudly before God.

    3 They said, 'Why, LORD, God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that one tribe is missing today?'

  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    77%

    10 We will take ten men out of every hundred, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand across all the tribes of Israel. They will gather provisions for the army, so we can act against Gibeah in Benjamin for their disgraceful act in Israel.

    11 So all the men of Israel were united together as one man against the city.

    12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this awful crime that has been committed among you?"

    13 Now hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

    14 Instead, the Benjaminites gathered from their cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the Israelites.

    15 On that day, the Benjaminites mustered twenty-six thousand men armed with swords from their towns, not counting the seven hundred elite troops from Gibeah.

  • Judg 21:20-24
    5 verses
    76%

    20 So they instructed the Benjaminites, 'Go and hide in the vineyards.'

    21 'Watch, and when the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dances, rush out from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife for yourself from the daughters of Shiloh. Then return to the land of Benjamin.'

    22 'When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, "Do us a favor by allowing them to have these wives, for we did not obtain wives for them during the battle. And you did not give your daughters to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath."'

    23 So the Benjaminites did as instructed. They took wives according to their number from the dancers they had seized. Then they went back to their inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

    24 At that time, the Israelites departed from there, each man to his tribe and family. They returned to their inheritance.

  • Judg 20:3
    75%

    3 The people of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. The Israelites said, "Tell us, how did this terrible crime happen?"

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39 When the Israelites turned in the battle, the Benjaminites had begun killing about thirty Israelites and thought, 'We are defeating them as in the first battle.'

  • Judg 20:41-42
    2 verses
    75%

    41 Then the Israelites turned on them, and the Benjaminites were terrified because they saw that disaster had overtaken them.

    42 They fled before the Israelites toward the wilderness, but they were overtaken, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them.

  • Judg 20:20-25
    6 verses
    74%

    20 The Israelites went out to fight the Benjaminites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.

    21 The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

    22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.

    23 The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They asked, "Shall we go up again to wage war against the Benjaminites, our brothers?" The LORD answered, "Go up against them."

    24 Then the Israelites approached the Benjaminites on the second day.

    25 On the second day, the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet the Israelites and struck down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

  • Judg 20:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31 The Benjaminites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as they had done before—about thirty men—in the open country, on the roads leading to Bethel and Gibeah.

    32 The Benjaminites thought, "We are defeating them as before." But the Israelites said, "Let us retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads."

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35 The LORD struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjaminites that day, all armed with swords.

    36 Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had given ground to the Benjaminites because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:48
    71%

    48 The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put the cities to the sword, including the people, livestock, and everything they found. They also set fire to all the cities they came upon.

  • Josh 22:21
    71%

    21 Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the clans of Israel:

  • Exod 32:14
    70%

    14 So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He had said He would bring on His people.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    70%

    20 Then Samuel brought forward all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

  • Num 1:37
    70%

    37 The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    69%

    7 This command was evil in the sight of God, so He struck Israel.

  • Josh 22:15
    69%

    15 When they came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead, they spoke to them, saying:

  • Num 31:16
    69%

    16 Behold, these women caused the people of Israel to act unfaithfully against the LORD through the advice of Balaam in the matter of Peor, which led to the plague among the congregation of the LORD.

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17 The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords, all experienced warriors.

  • Judg 20:45
    69%

    45 The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but the Israelites killed five thousand of them along the roads. They pursued them as far as Gidom and struck down another two thousand.

  • Judg 20:5
    68%

    5 While we were there, the men of Gibeah attacked me. They surrounded the house during the night and intended to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.

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