Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.” Jdg 20:1Act 23:12Ecc 5:2Jdg 20:8Jdg 21:18Mrk 6:231Sa 14:241Sa 14:28-29 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely. Jdg 20:261Sa 30:4Jdg 20:18Gen 27:38Jdg 2:4Jdg 20:23Jdg 21:12Jos 18:1 They said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?” Jer 12:1Psa 80:12Deu 29:24Isa 63:17Jos 7:7-9Pro 19:3Psa 74:1
On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 2Sa 24:251Ki 8:642Sa 24:18Exo 20:24-25Heb 13:10Hos 5:15Jdg 6:26Psa 78:34-35 The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.” Jdg 5:23Jer 48:101Sa 11:7Jdg 21:1Jdg 21:18Lev 27:28-29 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today. Jdg 21:152Sa 2:26Hos 11:8Jdg 11:35Jdg 20:23Luk 19:41-42 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?” Jdg 21:11Sa 14:28-291Sa 14:45Jdg 21:18 They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly. 1Sa 31:11-131Sa 11:1-32Sa 2:5-6 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, 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. 1Sa 11:7Jdg 21:5Jdg 5:231Sa 15:3Deu 13:15Jos 7:24 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.” Num 31:17-18Deu 2:34 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Jos 18:1Psa 78:60Jdg 20:18Jdg 20:23Jer 7:12
The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. Deu 20:10Jdg 20:47Eph 2:17Isa 57:19Jos 15:32Luk 10:5 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. 1Co 7:2Jdg 20:47Jdg 21:12 The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. Jdg 21:61Ch 15:131Ch 13:11Isa 30:13Isa 58:12Jdg 21:17 Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. Num 26:55Num 36:7 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.’” Jdg 21:1Jdg 11:35 They 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.” Exo 23:14-16Psa 81:31Sa 1:3Deu 16:1Deu 16:10Deu 16:13Jdg 18:31Jhn 5:1 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards, 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. Exo 15:20Jdg 11:34Jer 31:132Sa 6:21Luk 17:25Psa 149:3Psa 150:41Sa 18:6 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.’” Jdg 21:1Jdg 21:18Mrk 10:6-81Co 7:2Gen 1:27Gen 7:13Jdg 21:14Jdg 21:7
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. Jdg 20:48 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. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes. Deu 12:8Jdg 17:6Pro 3:5Ecc 11:9Pro 14:12Jdg 19:1Jdg 18:1Mic 2:1-2