Numbers 31:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 21:10-14 : 10 When 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, 11 And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, that you would have her as your wife; 12 Then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and trim her nails; 13 And she shall put off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and mourn for her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive two hundred thousand of their brethren, women, sons, and daughters, and took also much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage that reaches up to heaven. 10 And now you purpose to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen for yourselves, but are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 And the people will take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and maidservants: and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.
  • Lev 25:44 : 44 Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 But 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:17
    88%

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

  • Num 31:15
    80%

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

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Num 31:19
    78%

    19 And remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

  • Num 31:35
    77%

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

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9 And 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.

  • Deut 20:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

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

    14 But 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.

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

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

  • Ezek 9:6
    74%

    6 Utterly 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.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    73%

    2 And had taken the women captives that were there: they killed none, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves as spoil, and the plunder of the cities which we took.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 When 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,

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

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    73%

    3 Now 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.

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16 And he said, When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools; if it is a son, then you shall kill him: but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

    17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

    18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive?

  • Deut 3:19
    72%

    19 But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (for I know that you have much livestock), shall remain in your cities which I have given you;

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 22:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

    26 But to the young woman you shall do nothing; there is in the young woman no sin worthy of death; for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.

    27 For he found her in the field and the betrothed young woman cried out, and there was no one to save her.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16 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?

  • Deut 29:11
    71%

    11 Your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners that are in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water:

  • Judg 21:7
    71%

    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?

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

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

  • Lev 19:20
    70%

    20 And whoever lies carnally with a woman who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 31:2
    70%

    2 Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.

  • Deut 28:55-56
    2 verses
    70%

    55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.

    56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Zech 12:14
    70%

    14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7 Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Why do you commit this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, to leave you no one to remain;

  • Num 31:7
    69%

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

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29 And all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and they plundered even all that was in the houses.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    69%

    18 And to the genealogy of their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation, for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

  • Deut 22:23
    69%

    23 If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • Josh 6:21
    69%

    21 And 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.

  • Num 31:27
    69%

    27 And divide the prey into two parts: between those who took the war upon themselves, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, Thus did David, and so will be his way all the time he dwells in the country of the Philistines.

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13 And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • Exod 1:22
    69%

    22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.

  • Josh 1:14
    69%

    14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them,

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    69%

    9 And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.