Judges 21:23

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And 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.

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  • Judg 20:48 : 48 And 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.

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  • Judg 21:20-22
    3 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Judg 21:12-18
    7 verses
    82%

    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.

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

    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 21:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    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?

  • Judg 21:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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 21:24
    76%

    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 20:12-15
    4 verses
    73%

    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 20:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

    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 3:6
    71%

    6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

  • Judg 20:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

    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.

  • Judg 20:39
    70%

    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 20:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Ezra 10:44
    69%

    44All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
    69%

    23And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

  • Judg 20:48
    69%

    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 20:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Judg 20:42
    69%

    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.

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Num 31:9
    69%

    9And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

  • Judg 20:45
    69%

    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

  • Jer 29:6
    69%

    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.

  • Judg 20:10
    69%

    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.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath livered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

    11And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a sire unto her, that thou woulst have her to thy wife;

  • Judg 20:35
    68%

    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.

  • Josh 18:21
    68%

    21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,

  • Num 1:36
    68%

    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;

  • Gen 6:2
    68%

    2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

  • Gen 34:21
    67%

    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.

  • Neh 11:31
    67%

    31The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,