Judges 21:1

World English Bible (2000)

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."

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  • Judg 20:1 : 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
  • Judg 20:8 : 8 All the people arose as one man, saying, "We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.
  • Judg 21:18 : 18 However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'"
  • Eccl 5:2 : 2 Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
  • Jer 4:2 : 2 and you shall swear, 'As Yahweh lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
  • Mark 6:23 : 23 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
  • 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.
  • 1 Sam 14:28-29 : 28 Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed is the man who eats food this day.'" The people were faint. 29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
  • Exod 34:12-16 : 12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; 14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
  • Deut 7:2-3 : 2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; 3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
  • Judg 11:30-31 : 30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, 31 then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."
  • Judg 20:10 : 10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel."
  • Judg 21:5 : 5 The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
  • Judg 21:7 : 7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

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  • Judg 21:12-24
    13 verses
    88%

    12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

    13The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

    14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.

    15The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

    17They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

    18However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'"

    19They said, "Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah."

    20They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

    21and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

    23The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

    24The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

  • Judg 21:5-8
    4 verses
    87%

    5The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."

    6The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

    7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

    8They said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?" Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

  • Judg 21:2
    79%

    2The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

  • Judg 20:3
    74%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?"

  • Judg 20:10-14
    5 verses
    73%

    10and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel."

    11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

    12The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.

    14The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

  • Neh 10:30
    72%

    30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • Neh 13:25
    71%

    25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

  • Gen 24:37
    71%

    37My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

  • Judg 20:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

    20The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

    21The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

  • Judg 20:1
    70%

    1Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.

  • Josh 9:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

    19But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

  • Gen 24:3
    70%

    3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

  • Judg 20:8
    70%

    8All the people arose as one man, saying, "We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

  • Judg 20:23-25
    3 verses
    70%

    23The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?" Yahweh said, "Go up against him."

    24The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

    25Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 10:17
    70%

    17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.

  • Gen 31:50
    69%

    50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

  • Judg 20:31-32
    2 verses
    69%

    31The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

    32The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

  • Judg 20:39
    69%

    39The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle."

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • Josh 2:17
    69%

    17The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

  • Gen 34:16
    69%

    16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Josh 22:21
    68%

    21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

  • Num 36:8
    68%

    8Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.