Deuteronomy 20:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

What 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:5 : 5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
  • Matt 1:18 : 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.' 19 "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.' 20 "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'
  • 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
  • Deut 22:23-25 : 23 If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. 25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

    6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.

  • Deut 24:5
    80%

    5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

  • Deut 20:8
    78%

    8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.

  • Deut 28:30
    76%

    30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    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;

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13"'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man 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, else would you now be guilty.

  • Exod 21:10
    74%

    10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Deut 22:23
    74%

    23If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

  • Deut 22:25
    73%

    25But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    73%

    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    73%

    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • Deut 22:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

    28If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

  • Luke 14:20
    72%

    20"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

    3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • 1 Cor 7:36-38
    3 verses
    72%

    36But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

    37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

    38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

  • Deut 25:5
    72%

    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Deut 21:13
    72%

    13and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

  • Judg 21:7
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

    11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

  • Deut 22:20
    71%

    20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

  • Matt 22:25
    71%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

  • Luke 20:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

    30The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

  • Num 5:20
    70%

    20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:'

  • Mark 12:20
    70%

    20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

  • Lev 21:7
    70%

    7"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Prov 7:19
    70%

    19For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

  • Num 30:6
    70%

    6If she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

  • Deut 25:11
    70%

    11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

  • Gen 24:38
    70%

    38but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Rom 7:2
    69%

    2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;