Judges 21:10

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So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors against Jabesh Gilead. They commanded them,“Go and kill with your swords the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

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  • Judg 5:23 : 23 ‘Call judgment down on Meroz,’ says the LORD’s angel;‘Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the LORD’s battle, to help in the LORD’s battle against the warriors.’
  • Judg 21:5 : 5 The Israelites asked,“Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the LORD?”They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the LORD at Mizpah must certainly be executed.
  • 1 Sam 11:7 : 7 He took a pair of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said,“Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the LORD fell on the people, and they went out as one army.
  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
  • Deut 13:15 : 15 you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.
  • Josh 7:24 : 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster.

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  • Judg 21:11-14
    4 verses
    86%

    11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.

    12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins who had never been intimate with a man in bed. They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

    13The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.

    14The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.

  • Judg 21:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8So they asked,“Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the LORD at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering.

    9When they took roll call, they noticed none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

    18But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    76%

    3So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

  • Deut 20:13-14
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    76%

    13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

    14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.

  • Josh 6:21
    75%

    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

  • Judg 20:21
    74%

    21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.

  • Judg 20:25
    74%

    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    73%

    19As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep– all with the sword.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • Judg 20:10
    73%

    10We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel(and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”

  • Judg 21:16
    73%

    16The leaders of the assembly said,“How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

  • Judg 8:10
    73%

    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

  • Ezek 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5While I listened, he said to the others,“Go through the city after him and strike people down; do not let your eye pity nor spare anyone!

    6Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

  • 1 Sam 11:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000.

    9They said to the messengers who had come,“Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead:‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.

    10The men of Jabesh said,“Tomorrow we will come out to you and you can do with us whatever you wish.”

  • Num 31:9
    72%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Deut 3:6
    72%

    6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.

  • Deut 13:15
    72%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

  • Judg 20:35
    72%

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • 1 Sam 31:11
    72%

    11When the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

  • Judg 20:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

    14The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.

    15That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.

  • Num 31:7
    72%

    7They fought against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

  • Judg 20:31
    71%

    31The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    71%

    1Saul Comes to the Aid of Jabesh Nahash the Ammonite marched against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh Gilead said to Nahash,“Make a treaty with us and we will serve you.”

  • Deut 21:10
    71%

    10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    71%

    5Joab reported to David the number of warriors. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27and he said to them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

  • Deut 2:34
    71%

    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    71%

    7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

  • Judg 3:29
    71%

    29That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites– all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

  • Judg 11:32
    70%

    32Jephthah approached the Ammonites to fight with them, and the LORD handed them over to him.

  • 1 Sam 11:3
    70%

    3The elders of Jabesh said to him,“Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

  • 1 Chr 10:11
    70%

    11When all the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,