Judges 21:17

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

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  • Num 26:55 : 55 But the division of the land is to be determined by lot; they will receive their inheritance based on the names of their ancestral tribes.
  • Num 36:7 : 7 'Thus, no inheritance of the Israelites will transfer from one tribe to another, for each Israelite is to cling to the inheritance of their ancestral tribe.'

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  • Judg 21:12-16
    5 verses
    86%

    12They 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.

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

    14The 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.

    15The people of Israel grieved for Benjamin because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.

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

  • Judg 21:5-8
    4 verses
    82%

    5The 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.

    6The 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?'

    8They asked, 'Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come to the LORD at Mizpah?' They found that no one had come from Jabesh-Gilead to the assembly.

  • Judg 21:18
    81%

    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 21:20-24
    5 verses
    77%

    20So 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."'

    23So 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.

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

  • Judg 21:1
    77%

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

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

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

    13Now 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.

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

    15On 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 20:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31The 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.

    32The 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 21:3
    71%

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

  • Num 36:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7'Thus, no inheritance of the Israelites will transfer from one tribe to another, for each Israelite is to cling to the inheritance of their ancestral tribe.'

    8'Every daughter who inherits land from the tribes of Israel must marry within a clan of her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of their ancestors.'

    9'No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to retain its inheritance.'

  • Judg 20:25
    71%

    25On 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 20:3
    71%

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

  • Num 27:4
    70%

    4Why should our father’s name be removed from among his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.

  • Judg 20:39
    70%

    39When 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 20:10
    70%

    10We 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.

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3'Now, if they marry someone from a different tribe of the Israelites, their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. Thus, their inheritance will be removed from the lot of our inheritance.'

    4'And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are married and will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.'

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

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

    36Then 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.

  • Josh 17:4
    70%

    4They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, 'The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.' So, in accordance with the LORD's command, they were given an inheritance among their father's brothers.

  • Num 1:37
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:42
    69%

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

  • Josh 18:2
    69%

    2Seven tribes among the Israelites remained who had not yet received their inheritance.

  • Josh 21:17
    69%

    17From the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

  • Josh 17:6
    69%

    6For the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.

  • Josh 22:21
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • Deut 25:6
    69%

    6The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.

  • Num 27:9
    68%

    9If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.

  • Deut 18:2
    68%

    2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.