Judges 21:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Do 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed. 18 But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 At 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

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

    10So 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.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Judg 21:12
    82%

    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.

  • Josh 6:21
    81%

    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.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    79%

    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.

    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

    16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    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 3:6
    77%

    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
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 2:34
    76%

    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.

  • Ezek 9:6
    76%

    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.

  • Num 31:7
    75%

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

  • Judg 21:16
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    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.

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword– no one who breathed remained– and burned Hazor.

    12Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2So Israel made a vow to the LORD and said,“If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities.”

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    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,

    11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

  • Judg 20:21
    72%

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

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live?

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country– from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    72%

    8He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

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

    15During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

    16For Joab and the entire Israelite army stayed there six months until they had exterminated every male in Edom.

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21and keep your eyes open. When you see the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

    22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

    40Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

  • Josh 10:37
    71%

    37They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

  • Josh 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

    26Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

  • 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.’”

  • Num 31:35
    71%

    35and 32,000 young womenwho had not experienced a man’s bed.

  • Deut 2:16
    70%

    16Instructions Concerning Ammon So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,