Verse 22

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 21:1 : 1 ¶ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
  • Judg 21:18 : 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
  • Prov 20:25 : 25 ¶ [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
  • Mark 10:6-8 : 6 ‹But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.› 7 ‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;› 8 ‹And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.›
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  • Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
  • Judg 21:7 : 7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
  • Judg 21:14 : 14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
  • Gen 7:13 : 13 ¶ In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;