Judges 21:25

Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

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Genesis 36:31
And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5
And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.

Judges 21:3
And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?

Judges 21:4
Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.

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Numbers 15:39
So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

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.

Psalms 12:4
They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Amos 5:25
Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Micah 2:2
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

Acts 7:42
But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

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Deuteronomy 13:12
And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

Deuteronomy 13:13
That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

Deuteronomy 13:14
Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

Deuteronomy 13:15
Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

Deuteronomy 13:16
And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

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Judges 1:1
Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

Judges 2:16
Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.

Judges 2:17
But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

Judges 2:18
And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.

Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

Judges 11:40
For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.

Judges 20:28
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I still to go on with the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother, or am I to give it up? And the Lord said, Go on; for tomorrow I will give him into your hands.

Ruth 1:1
Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

Proverbs 3:5
Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

Hebrews 11:32
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

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Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

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Judges 9:9
But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

Judges 9:11
But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?

Judges 9:13
But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?

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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.

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 21:12
Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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,

1 Samuel 1:3
Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

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,

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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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2 Chronicles 15:3
Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

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Psalms 68:13
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

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Lamentations 5:14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

Romans 13:5
So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.

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