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.
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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.
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Genesis 49:27
Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.
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Judges 17:5
And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.
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Judges 20:47
But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were living on the rock of Rimmon for four months.
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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.
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Judges 21:10
So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.
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.
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.
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Judges 21:8
And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.
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.
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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.
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Psalms 42:4
Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
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