Judges 21:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

  • 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?

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then the elders{H2205} of the congregation{H5712} said,{H559} How shall we do{H6213} for wives{H802} for them that remain,{H3498} seeing the women{H802} are destroyed{H8045} out of Benjamin?{H1144}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then the elders{H2205} of the congregation{H5712} said{H559}{(H8799)}, How shall we do{H6213}{(H8799)} for wives{H802} for them that remain{H3498}{(H8737)}, seeing the women{H802} are destroyed{H8045}{(H8738)} out of Benjamin{H1144}?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And the Elders of the congregacio sayde: What wil we do, that the remnaunt maye haue wyues also? for the weme in Ben Iamin are destroied,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Therefore the Elders of the Congregation said, How shall we doe for wiues to the remnant? for the women of Beniamin are destroyed.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And then the elders of the congregation, sayd: What shall we do to the remnaunt of them, to get them wiues? seyng all the women of Beniamin are destroyed?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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?

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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?

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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?

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The leaders of the assembly said,“How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:6-8
    3 verses
    87%

    6 And the children of Israel felt sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.

    7 What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

    8 And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there was no one from Jabesh Gilead in the camp to the assembly.

  • Judg 21:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

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

    18 However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin.

  • Judg 21:10-15
    6 verses
    84%

    10 And 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.

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

    12 And 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.

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

    14 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them wives whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead; and yet they did not suffice for them.

    15 And the people felt sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

  • Judg 21:20-24
    5 verses
    82%

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

    21 And 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.

    22 And 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.

    23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number, from those who danced, whom they caught; and they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities, and dwelt in them.

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

  • Judg 21:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.

    2 And the people came to the house of God, and stayed there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept bitterly;

  • Judg 20:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

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

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

    5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night, and thought to have killed me; and my concubine they forced, that she is dead.

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

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

    13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.

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

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

  • Judg 20:25
    72%

    25 And 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%

    9 But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

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

  • Judg 20:39
    72%

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

  • Judg 20:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Num 31:15
    71%

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

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35 And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these drew the sword.

    36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave way to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the ambushers which they had set beside Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:48
    70%

    48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the men of every city, and the beasts, and all that came to hand; also they set on fire all the cities they came to.

  • Judg 20:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • Judg 19:16
    69%

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

  • Gen 34:21
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17 And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.

  • Ezra 10:14
    69%

    14 Let our leaders of the entire assembly stand, and let all those in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God concerning this matter is turned away from us.

  • Num 1:36
    69%

    36 From the children of Benjamin, by their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war;

  • Josh 22:21
    69%

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

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • Jer 18:21
    68%

    21 Therefore 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.