Judges 21:11
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
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Judges 21:11
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
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Leviticus 27:28
“ ‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to Yahweh.
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Leviticus 27:29
“ ‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 2:34
We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
Deuteronomy 20:14
but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Joshua 6:21
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
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Numbers 4:23
you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
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Numbers 31:14
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
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Numbers 31:35
and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
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Judges 18:2
The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
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Judges 21:5
The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
Judges 21:6
The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
Judges 21:7
How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
1 Samuel 11:7
He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
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Judges 21:13
The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
Judges 21:14
Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
Judges 21:15
The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
Judges 21:17
They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
Judges 21:18
However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”
Judges 21:19
They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
Judges 21:20
They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
Judges 21:21
and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Judges 21:22
It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”
Judges 21:23
The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
Judges 21:24
The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
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1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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1 Samuel 11:1
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”
1 Samuel 31:11
When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Samuel 31:12
all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
1 Samuel 31:13
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 2:4
The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
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2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report to them, and they went and told king David; for they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city.
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2 Samuel 21:11
David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 44:7
“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining,
Jeremiah 44:8
in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 44:11
“Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.
Jeremiah 51:22
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
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Ezekiel 21:11
It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.” ’
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