Judges 21:23

World English Bible (2000)

The 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.

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  • Judg 20:48 : 48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

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  • Judg 21:20-22
    3 verses
    86%

    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.'"

  • Judg 21:12-18
    7 verses
    82%

    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.'"

  • Judg 21:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    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?"

  • Judg 21:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."

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

  • Judg 21:24
    76%

    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 20:12-15
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

    15The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    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 3:6
    71%

    6and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • Judg 20:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

    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
    70%

    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 20:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Ezra 10:44
    69%

    44All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
    69%

    23He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

  • Judg 20:48
    69%

    48The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

  • Judg 20:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    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?"

    4The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

  • Judg 20:42
    69%

    42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

  • Num 31:9
    69%

    9The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

  • Judg 20:45
    69%

    45They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

  • Jer 29:6
    69%

    6Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.

  • Judg 20:10
    69%

    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."

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

    11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

  • Judg 20:35
    68%

    35Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

  • Josh 18:21
    68%

    21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

  • Num 1:36
    68%

    36Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

  • Gen 6:2
    68%

    2that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

  • Gen 34:21
    67%

    21"These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Neh 11:31
    67%

    31The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,