Judges 21:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

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  • Judg 21:6-8
    3 verses
    87%

    6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

    7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

    8And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

  • Judg 21:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

    18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

  • Judg 21:10-15
    6 verses
    84%

    10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

    11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

    12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

    13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

    14And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

    15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

  • Judg 21:20-24
    5 verses
    82%

    20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

    21And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

    23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

    24And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

  • Judg 21:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

    2And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

  • Judg 20:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

    4And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

    5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

    12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

    13Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judg 20:25
    72%

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 20:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

    10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

  • Judg 20:39
    72%

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

  • Judg 20:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

    18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

    21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

  • Num 31:15
    71%

    15And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

    36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:48
    70%

    48And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

  • Judg 20:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

    42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

  • Judg 19:16
    69%

    16And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • Gen 34:21
    69%

    21These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is lar enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • Ezra 10:14
    69%

    14Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

  • Num 1:36
    69%

    36Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the mber of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

  • Josh 22:21
    69%

    21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

  • Jer 18:21
    68%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.