Judges 21:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And this `is' the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 `And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain; 18 and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

    9And the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.

    10And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go -- and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

    18and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

  • Judg 21:12
    82%

    12And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which `is' in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 6:21
    81%

    21and they devote all that `is' in the city, from man even unto woman, from young even unto aged, even unto ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    79%

    13and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.

    14Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.

    15So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16`Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee `for' an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

    17for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee,

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    3Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

  • Deut 3:6
    77%

    6and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;

  • Deut 13:15
    77%

    15`Thou dost surely smite the inhabitants of that city by the mouth of the sword; devoting it, and all that `is' in it, even its cattle, by the mouth of the sword;

  • Deut 2:34
    76%

    34and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;

  • Ezek 9:6
    76%

    6aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom `is' the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

  • Num 31:7
    75%

    7And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

  • Judg 21:16
    74%

    16And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring `in' her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

    22`When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11and they smite every person who `is' in it by the mouth of the sword; he hath devoted -- he hath not left any one breathing, and Hazor he hath burnt with fire;

    12and all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, hath Joshua captured, and he smiteth them by the mouth of the sword; he devoted them, as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered;

    10and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2And Israel voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, `If Thou dost certainly give this people into my hand, then I have devoted their cities;'

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,

    11and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,

  • Judg 20:21
    72%

    21and the sons of Benjamin come out from Gibeah, and destroy in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men -- to the earth.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14and all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, have the sons of Israel spoiled for themselves; only, every human being they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, till their destroying them; they have not left any one breathing.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21And Joshua cometh at that time, and cutteth off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, even from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel; with their cities hath Joshua devoted them.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    72%

    8and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

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

    15and it cometh to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smiteth every male in Edom --

    16for six months did Joab abide there, and all Israel, till the cutting off of every male in Edom --

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances -- then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;

    22and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39and captureth it, and its king, and all its cities, and they smite them by the mouth of the sword, and devote every person who `is' in it -- he hath not left a remnant; as he did to Hebron so he did to Debir, and to its king, and as he did to Libnah, and to its king.

    40And Joshua smiteth all the land of the hill-country, and of the south, and of the low-country, and of the springs, and all their kings -- he hath not left a remnant, and all that doth breathe he hath devoted, as Jehovah, God of Israel, commanded.

  • Josh 10:37
    71%

    37and capture it, and smite it by the mouth of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and every person who `is' in it -- he hath not left a remnant -- according to all that he did to Eglon -- and doth devote it, and every person who `is' in it.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    19and Nob, the city of the priests, he hath smitten by the mouth of the sword, from man even unto woman, from infant even unto suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, by the mouth of the sword.

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

    4and Jehovah hath done to them as he hath done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land, whom He destroyed.

  • Josh 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai.

    26And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Put each his sword by his thigh, pass over and turn back from gate to gate through the camp, and slay each his brother, and each his friend, and each his relation.'

  • Num 31:35
    71%

    35and of human beings -- of the women who have not known the lying of a male -- all the persons `are' two and thirty thousand.

  • Deut 2:16
    70%

    16`And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,