Judges 21:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

    9For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

    10The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

    18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Judg 21:12
    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.

  • Josh 6:21
    81%

    21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    79%

    13and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

    15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

    17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • Deut 3:6
    77%

    6We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Deut 13:15
    77%

    15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 2:34
    76%

    34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

  • Ezek 9:6
    76%

    6kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

  • Num 31:7
    75%

    7They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

  • Judg 21:16
    74%

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

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

    22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

    12All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

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

    10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    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 20:21
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2and 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;

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    72%

    8He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

    16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king of it.

    40So Joshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

  • Josh 10:37
    71%

    37and they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    19Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

    4Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

  • Josh 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

    26For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor."

  • Num 31:35
    71%

    35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

  • Deut 2:16
    70%

    16So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,