Judges 21:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

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  • Judg 21:1 : 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.”
  • Judg 21:18 : 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!’
  • 1 Sam 14:28-29 : 28 Then someone from the army informed him,“Your father put the army under a strict oath saying,‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.” 29 Then Jonathan said,“My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed when I tasted just a little of this honey.
  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 But the army said to Saul,“Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:11-18
    8 verses
    89%

    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.

    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.

    17The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.

    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 21:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    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.”

    2So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably.

  • Judg 21:21-23
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Judg 21:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    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!

  • Judg 21:8
    76%

    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.

  • Neh 10:30
    75%

    30“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

  • Gen 34:16
    74%

    16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

  • Gen 24:37
    74%

    37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

  • Gen 34:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

    22Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19but all the leaders told the whole community,“We swore an oath to them in the name of the LORD God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them!

    20We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”

  • Judg 20:3
    72%

    3The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”

  • Deut 20:7
    72%

    7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

  • Gen 24:3
    72%

    3so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

  • Judg 3:6
    72%

    6They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

  • Neh 13:27
    72%

    27Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”

  • Gen 34:9
    72%

    9Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

  • Judg 20:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Num 36:8
    71%

    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.

  • Neh 13:25
    71%

    25So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying,“You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

  • Num 31:18
    71%

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

  • Josh 2:17
    71%

    17The men said to her,“We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met:

  • Gen 34:14
    70%

    14They said to them,“We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.

  • Matt 22:25
    70%

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

  • Gen 31:50
    70%

    50If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.”

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Judg 20:10
    70%

    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 36:6
    70%

    6This is what the LORD has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters:‘Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

  • Ezek 44:22
    70%

    22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

  • Num 36:11
    70%

    11For the daughters of Zelophehad– Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah– were married to the sons of their uncles.