Judges 21:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:24 : 24 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
  • Josh 7:7-9 : 7 Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 > God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
  • Ps 80:12 : 12 Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
  • Prov 19:3 : 3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.
  • Isa 63:17 : 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

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  • Judg 21:4-8
    5 verses
    75%

    4It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings.

    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 repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

    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?

    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
    72%

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

  • Judg 21:15-17
    3 verses
    71%

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

    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?

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:18
    71%

    18Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

  • Judg 20:12
    70%

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

  • Josh 22:21
    70%

    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,

  • 2 Kgs 3:10
    70%

    10The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

  • 1 Kgs 11:32
    69%

    32(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

  • 2 Chr 15:3
    69%

    3Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

  • Josh 22:14-16
    3 verses
    68%

    14and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

    15They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

    16Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?

  • Judg 20:3
    68%

    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 was this wickedness brought to pass?

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    68%

    20So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

  • Jer 3:21
    68%

    21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

  • Josh 18:2
    68%

    2There remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    68%

    7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

  • Judg 20:27
    67%

    27The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

  • Judg 18:1
    67%

    1In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:3
    67%

    3Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    67%

    16When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

  • Judg 6:13
    67%

    13Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
    67%

    20It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

  • Amos 3:1
    67%

    1Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

  • 2 Sam 21:3
    67%

    3and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?

  • Jer 16:10
    67%

    10It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?

  • 1 Kgs 22:17
    67%

    17He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.

  • Josh 7:7
    67%

    7Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

  • Hos 3:4
    66%

    4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

  • Josh 21:1
    66%

    1Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel;

  • 1 Sam 9:21
    66%

    21Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    66%

    3Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

  • Ezra 9:15
    66%

    15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this.

  • Josh 7:14
    66%

    14In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man.

  • Hos 10:3
    66%

    3Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; And the king, what can he do for us?"

  • Num 27:4
    66%

    4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.

  • Josh 17:14
    66%

    14The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me?

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    66%

    22They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

  • 1 Sam 4:3
    66%

    3When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

  • Isa 63:17
    66%

    17O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

  • Deut 29:21
    66%

    21Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

  • Ezek 47:21
    66%

    21So shall you divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

  • Neh 13:11
    66%

    11Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

  • 1 Chr 17:21
    66%

    21What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?