Judges 21

¹Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:1Acts 23:12Eccl 5:2Judg 20:8Judg 21:18Mark 6:231 Sam 14:241 Sam 14:28-29Deut 7:2-3Jer 4:2

²And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:261 Sam 30:4Judg 20:18Gen 27:38Josh 18:1Judg 2:4Judg 20:23Judg 21:12

³And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 12:1Ps 80:12Deut 29:24Isa 63:17Josh 7:7-9Prov 19:3Ps 74:1

⁴And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 24:251 Kgs 8:642 Sam 24:18Exod 20:24-25Heb 13:10Hos 5:15Judg 6:26Ps 78:34-35

⁵And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 5:23Jer 48:101 Sam 11:7Judg 21:1Judg 21:18Lev 27:28-29

⁶And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 21:152 Sam 2:26Hos 11:8Judg 11:35Judg 20:23Luke 19:41-42

⁷How 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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 21:11 Sam 14:28-291 Sam 14:45Judg 21:18

⁸And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh–gilead to the assembly. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 31:11-131 Sam 11:1-32 Sam 2:5-6

⁹For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁰And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 11:7Judg 21:5Judg 5:231 Sam 15:3Deut 13:15Josh 7:24

¹¹And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 31:17-18Deut 2:34

¹²And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:1Ps 78:60Jer 7:12Judg 20:18Judg 20:23

¹³And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 20:10Judg 20:47Eph 2:17Isa 57:19Josh 15:32Luke 10:5

¹⁴And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 7:2Judg 20:47Judg 21:12

¹⁵And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 21:61 Chr 15:131 Chr 13:11Isa 30:13Isa 58:12Judg 21:17

¹⁶Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁷And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 26:55Num 36:7

¹⁸Howbeit 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 21:1Judg 11:35

¹⁹Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth–el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth–el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 23:14-16Ps 81:31 Sam 1:3Deut 16:1Deut 16:10Deut 16:13John 5:1John 7:2Josh 18:1Judg 18:31

²⁰Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²¹And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 15:20Judg 11:34Jer 31:132 Sam 6:21Luke 17:25Ps 149:3Ps 150:41 Sam 18:62 Sam 6:14Eccl 3:4

²²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 21:1Judg 21:18Mark 10:6-81 Cor 7:2Gen 1:27Gen 7:13Judg 21:14Judg 21:7Phlm 1:9-12Prov 20:25

²³And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:48

²⁴And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:8Judg 17:6Prov 3:5Eccl 11:9Prov 14:12Judg 19:1Judg 18:1Mic 2:1-2Ps 12:4