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Judges Chapter 21

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Judges

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In this chapter the Israelites are warned against the danger of idolatry and the consequences of worshiping false gods, as seen in the story of the Philistines and their king Goliath. The narrative emphasizes the importance of staying faithful to God and the danger of compromising one's covenant, teaching that the Lord will protect those who remain loyal and that false idols bring destruction.

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(1) Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
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Judges 20:1Judges 20:8Judges 20:10Jeremiah 4:2Judges 21:5Judges 11:30Judges 11:31I Samuel 14:24I Samuel 14:28I Samuel 14:29Ecclesiastes 5:2Mark 6:23

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Judges 11:34

(2) And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
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Judges 21:12Judges 20:18Judges 20:23Judges 20:26Joshua 18:1Judges 2:4Genesis 27:38I Samuel 30:4

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II Samuel 13:36I Samuel 11:4II Samuel 3:32Job 2:12

(3) And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
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Deuteronomy 29:24Joshua 7:7Joshua 7:8Joshua 7:9Psalms 74:1Psalms 80:12Proverbs 19:3Isaiah 63:17Jeremiah 12:1

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Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62I Samuel 1:8Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:7Joshua 20:8

(4) And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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Psalms 78:34Psalms 78:35Hosea 5:15Judges 6:26Exodus 20:24Exodus 20:25II Samuel 24:18II Samuel 24:25I Kings 8:64Hebrews 13:10

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Exodus 32:6II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17II Samuel 24:25

(5) And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
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Judges 21:1Judges 21:18Judges 5:23Leviticus 27:28Leviticus 27:29I Samuel 11:7Jeremiah 48:10

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 44:25

(6) And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
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Judges 21:15Judges 11:35Judges 20:23II Samuel 2:26Hosea 11:8Luke 19:41Luke 19:42

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Joshua 21:4I Chronicles 6:65Revelation 7:8Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62Numbers 2:22

(7) How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
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Judges 21:1Judges 21:18I Samuel 14:28I Samuel 14:29I Samuel 14:45

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Jeremiah 29:6II Chronicles 11:21Genesis 4:23Genesis 31:50Genesis 34:21Judges 3:6

(8) And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
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I Samuel 11:1I Samuel 11:2I Samuel 11:3I Samuel 31:11I Samuel 31:12I Samuel 31:13II Samuel 2:5II Samuel 2:6

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Exodus 33:7

(9) For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Judges 20:15

(10) And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
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Judges 21:5Judges 5:23Deuteronomy 13:15Joshua 7:24I Samuel 11:7I Samuel 15:3

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Numbers 7:87Deuteronomy 13:15Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Numbers 7:84

(11) And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
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Numbers 31:17Numbers 31:18Deuteronomy 2:34

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Joshua 11:20I Samuel 15:9II Chronicles 20:23Amos 9:8

(12) And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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Judges 20:18Judges 20:23Joshua 18:1Psalms 78:60Jeremiah 7:12

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Ezekiel 48:16Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13

(13) And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
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Judges 20:47Joshua 15:32Deuteronomy 20:10Isaiah 57:19Luke 10:5Ephesians 2:17

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Ephesians 4:11Judges 20:47II Samuel 3:19II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23

(14) And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
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Judges 21:12Judges 20:47I Corinthians 7:2

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Judges 21:16Numbers 31:15

(15) And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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Judges 21:6Judges 21:17I Chronicles 13:11I Chronicles 15:13Isaiah 30:13Isaiah 58:12

(16) Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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Judges 21:7Judges 21:14Deuteronomy 2:34

(17) And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
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Numbers 26:55Numbers 36:7

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Numbers 36:4Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:7Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:8

(18) Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
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Judges 21:1Judges 11:35

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Jeremiah 29:6Judges 21:7Nehemiah 13:25Genesis 31:50Genesis 34:21Judges 3:6

(19) Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
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Exodus 23:14Exodus 23:15Exodus 23:16Leviticus 23:2Leviticus 23:4Leviticus 23:6Leviticus 23:10Leviticus 23:34Numbers 10:10Numbers 28:16Numbers 28:26Numbers 29:12

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Genesis 12:8I Kings 12:32Genesis 13:3Joshua 16:1Ezekiel 40:44Zechariah 14:4

(20) Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
(21) And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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Judges 11:34Exodus 15:20I Samuel 18:6II Samuel 6:14II Samuel 6:21Psalms 149:3Psalms 150:4Ecclesiastes 3:4Jeremiah 31:13Matthew 10:17Luke 17:25

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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55Nehemiah 5:5Genesis 19:30

(22) And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
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Philemon 1:9Philemon 1:10Philemon 1:11Philemon 1:12Judges 21:14Genesis 1:27Genesis 7:13Mark 10:6Mark 10:7Mark 10:8I Corinthians 7:2Judges 21:1

(23) And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
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Judges 20:48

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Revelation 13:18Numbers 26:54Joshua 19:9

(24) And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
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Numbers 36:4Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:7Numbers 36:8Numbers 26:58

(25) In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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Judges 17:6Judges 18:1Judges 19:1Judges 18:7Deuteronomy 12:8Psalms 12:4Proverbs 3:5Proverbs 14:12Ecclesiastes 11:9Micah 2:1Micah 2:2

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