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Judges 21 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:3 - And they said, O Jehovah, the 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:4 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 - And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:9 - For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - And Benjamin 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 sufficed them not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:15 - And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17 - And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:20 - And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the 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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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:24 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:25 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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