Judges 21:13
The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.
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Referenced Verses
- Judg 20:47 : 47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.
- Deut 20:10 : 10 When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.
- Josh 15:32 : 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon– a total of twenty-nine cities and their towns.
- Isa 57:19 : 19 I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the LORD,“and I will heal them.
- Luke 10:5 : 5 Whenever you enter a house, first say,‘May peace be on this house!’
- Eph 2:17 : 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Judg 21:14-2310 verses80%
14 The 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.
15 The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.
16 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.
17 The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.
18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying,‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’
19 However, there is an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel(east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.”
20 So they commanded the Benjaminites,“Go hide in the vineyards,
21 and 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.
22 When 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.’”
23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. They went home to their own territory, rebuilt their cities, and settled down.
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12 They 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.
- Judg 20:10-156 verses76%
10 We 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.”
11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.
12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,“How could such a wicked thing take place?
13 Now, 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.
14 The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.
15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.
- Judg 21:1-22 verses75%
1 600 Brides for 600 Brothers The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying,“Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”
2 So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably.
- Judg 21:6-83 verses74%
6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said,“Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!
7 How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
8 So 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.
- Judg 20:3-42 verses74%
3 The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”
4 The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up,“I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.
- Judg 20:45-473 verses74%
45 The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
46 That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.
47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.
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15 They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:
- Judg 20:23-253 verses72%
23 The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening. They asked the LORD,“Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?” The LORD said,“Attack them!”
24 So the Israelites marched toward the Benjaminites the next day.
25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.
- Judg 20:30-323 verses72%
30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.
31 The 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.
32 Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”
- Josh 22:12-132 verses72%
12 When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to launch an attack against them.
13 The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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10 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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16 Some from Benjamin and Judah also came to David’s stronghold.
- Judg 20:19-213 verses71%
19 The Israelites got up the next morning and moved against Gibeah.
20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.
21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.
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39 the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”
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25 The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.
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21 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the Israelite clans:
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19 Then Abner spoke privately with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to.
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21 These cities belonged to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans: Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
- Judg 20:35-362 verses68%
35 The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.
36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.
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17 The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.
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31 Some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,