Judges 21:17
The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.
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- Judg 21:12-165 verses86%
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.
15The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.
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 21:5-84 verses82%
5The 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.
6The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said,“Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!
7How 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.”
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.
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18But 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!’
- Judg 21:20-245 verses77%
20So they commanded the Benjaminites,“Go hide in the vineyards,
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.’”
23The 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.
24Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.
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1600 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.”
- Judg 20:12-154 verses74%
12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,“How could such a wicked thing take place?
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.
- Judg 20:31-322 verses72%
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.
32Then 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.”
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3They said,“Why, O LORD God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?” An entire tribe has disappeared from Israel today!”
- Num 36:7-93 verses71%
7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.
8And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.
9No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”
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25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.
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3The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”
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4Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”
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39the 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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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.”
- Num 36:3-42 verses70%
3Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
4And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”
- Judg 20:35-362 verses70%
35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.
36Then 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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4They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the LORD had commanded.
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37Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
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20Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot.
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17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.
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42They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.
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2seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.
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17From the tribe of Benjamin they assigned Gibeon, Geba,
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6for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
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21The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the Israelite clans:
- Judg 20:20-212 verses69%
20The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.
21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.
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6Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
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9and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;
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2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.