Judges 21:11
And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.
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Judges 21:11
And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.
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Leviticus 27:28
But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.
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Leviticus 27:29
Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.
Deuteronomy 2:34
At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:
Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
Joshua 6:21
And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.
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Numbers 4:23
All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
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Numbers 31:14
And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
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Numbers 31:35
And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.
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Judges 18:2
So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.
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Judges 21:5
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.
Judges 21:6
And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
Judges 21:7
What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.
1 Samuel 11:7
And he took two oxen and, cutting them up, sent them through all the land of Israel by the hand of runners, saying, If any man does not come out after Saul and Samuel, this will be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord came on the people and they came out like one man.
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Judges 21:13
And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.
Judges 21:14
Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.
Judges 21:15
And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:16
Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?
Judges 21:17
And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,
Judges 21:18
Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
Judges 21:19
And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Judges 21:20
And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,
Judges 21:21
And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.
Judges 21:22
And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.
Judges 21:23
So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.
Judges 21:24
Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
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1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
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1 Samuel 11:1
Then about a month after this, Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.
1 Samuel 31:11
And when the people of Jabesh-gilead had news of what the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Samuel 31:12
All the fighting men got up and, travelling all night, took Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and had them burned there.
1 Samuel 31:13
And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.
2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.
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2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.
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2 Samuel 21:11
And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.
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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
Jeremiah 44:7
So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;
Jeremiah 44:8
Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 44:11
So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;
Jeremiah 51:22
With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;
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Ezekiel 21:11
And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.
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