Judges 21:2

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

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  • Judg 20:26 : 26 Then all the Israelites, the entire army, went up to Bethel, wept, sat before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening. They offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.
  • Judg 20:18 : 18 The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, "Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."
  • Judg 20:23 : 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."
  • Gen 27:38 : 38 Esau said to his father, 'Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!' Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
  • Josh 18:1 : 1 The entire assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh, where they set up the Tent of Meeting, and the land was subdued before them.
  • Judg 2:4 : 4 When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
  • Judg 21:12 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until they could weep no more because they had no strength left.

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  • Judg 20:23-26
    4 verses
    84%

    23The 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."

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

    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.

    26Then all the Israelites, the entire army, went up to Bethel, wept, sat before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening. They offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.

  • Judg 21:1
    79%

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

  • Judg 21:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    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?'

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

  • Judg 21:3-8
    6 verses
    76%

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

    4The next day the people rose early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 11:4
    75%

    4When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these matters to the people, they all wept loudly.

  • Judg 2:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

    5So they named that place Bochim, and there they offered sacrifices to the LORD.

  • Num 14:1
    73%

    1Then the entire assembly raised their voices and cried, and the people wept throughout that night.

  • 1 Sam 30:4
    73%

    4Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until they could weep no more because they had no strength left.

  • Judg 20:3
    72%

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

  • Ezra 10:1
    72%

    1While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping, and falling facedown in front of the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, because the people were weeping bitterly.

  • 2 Sam 1:12
    71%

    12They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, for Jonathan his son, for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

  • Jer 3:21
    71%

    21A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Judg 20:12
    71%

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

  • Judg 10:10
    70%

    10Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, 'We have sinned against You, for we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.'

  • Judg 20:31
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 7:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Then Samuel said, 'Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.'

    6When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day, they fasted and confessed, 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

  • Judg 20:18-21
    4 verses
    70%

    18The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, "Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."

    19The next morning the Israelites got up and camped near Gibeah.

    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.

  • Judg 21:13
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:1
    69%

    1Then all the Israelites went out, and the entire assembly came together as one man, from Dan to Beersheba and the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.

  • Neh 1:4
    69%

    4When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned, fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.

  • Judg 19:16
    69%

    16In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim and was staying temporarily in Gibeah, though the people of the place were Benjaminites.

  • Ezra 10:9
    69%

    9So, within three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. It was the twentieth day of the ninth month, and all the people sat in the square before the house of God, trembling because of the matter and because of the heavy rain.

  • 1 Sam 4:12
    69%

    12A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that same day, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

  • Neh 9:1
    69%

    1On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting, wearing sackcloth, and putting dust on their heads.

  • Judg 21:21-23
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Judg 20:41
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:14
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    68%

    17Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah.

  • Judg 10:16
    68%

    16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

  • Judg 1:22
    68%

    22The people of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

  • Jer 9:18
    68%

    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

  • Judg 21:19
    68%

    19Then they said, 'There is a yearly festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.'