Judges 21:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

And this is what you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.

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  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

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  • Judg 21:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

    9For the people were counted, and, behold, none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.

    10And the congregation sent there twelve thousand of their best men, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and the children.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

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

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

  • Judg 21:12
    82%

    12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known a man by lying with any male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 6:21
    81%

    21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    79%

    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

    15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • Deut 3:6
    77%

    6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

  • Deut 13:15
    77%

    15You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 2:34
    76%

    34And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

  • Ezek 9:6
    76%

    6Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.

  • Num 31:7
    75%

    7And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.

  • Judg 21:16
    74%

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

    22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away evil from Israel.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    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.

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And they destroyed all the souls that were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was none left breathing: and he burned Hazor with fire.

    12And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

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

    10And they burned all their cities where they dwelt, and all their fortified castles, with fire.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

    11And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, that you would have her as your wife;

  • Judg 20:21
    72%

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

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses said to them, Have you kept all the women alive?

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14And all the spoil of these cities, and the livestock, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, leaving none that breathed.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21And at that time Joshua came, and cut off the Anakim from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    72%

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had killed every male in Edom.

    16(For six months Joab remained there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom.)

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21And watch, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man seize his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done to Libnah and its king.

    40So Joshua defeated all the land: the mountain country, the South, the lowland, and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

  • Josh 10:37
    71%

    37And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword—its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    19And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

    4And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.

  • Josh 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, all the men of Ai.

    26For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27He said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

  • Num 31:35
    71%

    35And thirty-two thousand women in all, who had not known man by lying with him.

  • Deut 2:16
    70%

    16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,