1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."

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Judges 20:1, Judges 20:1, Mark 6:23, Mark 6:23, Judges 21:18

2The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

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Judges 20:26, Judges 20:26, Judges 20:18, Judges 20:18, 1 Samuel 30:4

3They said, "Lord God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"

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Psalms 80:12, Isaiah 63:17, Deuteronomy 29:24, Psalms 74:1, Proverbs 19:3

4It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

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2 Samuel 24:25, 2 Samuel 24:25, Hosea 5:15, 1 Kings 8:64, Psalms 78:34

5The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?" For they had made a great oath concerning anyone who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."

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Judges 5:23, Judges 5:23, Jeremiah 48:10, Judges 21:1, Leviticus 27:28

6The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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Judges 21:15, Judges 21:15, Judges 20:23, Hosea 11:8, Judges 11:35

7How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

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Judges 21:1, Judges 21:1, 1 Samuel 14:45, Judges 21:18, 1 Samuel 14:28

8They said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" Behold, no one came to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

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1 Samuel 31:11, 1 Samuel 31:13, 1 Samuel 31:11, 1 Samuel 31:13, 1 Samuel 11:1

9For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

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10The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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1 Samuel 11:7, Judges 21:5, Judges 5:23, 1 Samuel 11:7, Judges 21:5

11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a man."

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Numbers 31:17, Numbers 31:18, Numbers 31:17, Numbers 31:18, Deuteronomy 2:34

12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Joshua 18:1, Joshua 18:1, Jeremiah 7:12, Judges 20:23, Psalms 78:60

13The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

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Judges 20:47, Deuteronomy 20:10, Judges 20:47, Deuteronomy 20:10, Isaiah 57:19

14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.

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Judges 21:12, 1 Corinthians 7:2, Judges 20:47, Judges 21:12, 1 Corinthians 7:2

15The people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.

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Judges 21:6, Judges 21:6, Judges 21:17, 1 Chronicles 15:13, 1 Chronicles 13:11

16Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?"

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17They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

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Numbers 36:7, Numbers 26:55, Numbers 36:7, Numbers 26:55

18However 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.'"

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Judges 21:1, Judges 21:1, Judges 11:35, Judges 11:35

19They said, "Behold, there is a feast of the Lord 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."

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John 5:1, 1 Samuel 1:3, Numbers 28:16, Psalms 81:3, Leviticus 23:6

20They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

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21and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

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Judges 11:34, Exodus 15:20, Judges 11:34, Exodus 15:20, Luke 17:25

22It 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 wives for each man in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

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Judges 21:18, Judges 21:1, Judges 21:18, Judges 21:1, Judges 21:7

23The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, 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.

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Judges 20:48, Judges 20:48

24The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

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25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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Deuteronomy 12:8, Deuteronomy 12:8, Judges 17:6, Judges 17:6, Proverbs 3:5