Judges 21:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 26:55 : 55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
  • Num 36:7 : 7 So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not transfer from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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  • Judg 21:12-16
    5 verses
    86%

    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.

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

    14And 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.

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

    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?

  • Judg 21:5-8
    4 verses
    82%

    5And the children of Israel said, Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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

    7What 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?

    8And 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 21:18
    81%

    18However, 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 21:20-24
    5 verses
    77%

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

    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.

    23And 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.

    24And 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
    77%

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

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

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

    13Now 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.

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to 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-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • 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 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.

    32And 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.

  • Judg 21:3
    71%

    3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today one tribe should be missing from Israel?

  • Num 36:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not transfer from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    8And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each of the children of Israel may enjoy the inheritance of his fathers.

    9Thus the inheritance shall not transfer from one tribe to another tribe; but each tribe of the children of Israel shall keep to its own inheritance.

  • Judg 20:25
    71%

    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 20:3
    71%

    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?

  • Num 27:4
    70%

    4Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he has no son? Give us, therefore, a possession among the brothers of our father.

  • Judg 20:39
    70%

    39And 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 20:10
    70%

    10And 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.

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3And if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received; thus it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

    4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received; so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Judg 20:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35And 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.

    36So 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.

  • Josh 17:4
    70%

    4They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore, according to the commandment of the LORD, he gave them an inheritance among their father's brothers.

  • Num 1:37
    69%

    37Those who were numbered from them, even from the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    69%

    20And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

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

  • Judg 20:42
    69%

    42Therefore 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.

  • Josh 18:2
    69%

    2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

  • Josh 21:17
    69%

    17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,

  • Josh 17:6
    69%

    6because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons, and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.

  • Josh 22:21
    69%

    21Then 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,

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20And 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.

    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 25:6
    69%

    6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be put out of Israel.

  • Num 27:9
    68%

    9And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

  • Deut 18:2
    68%

    2Therefore, they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as He has said to them.