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Judges 21:22
Judges 21:22 is verse 22 of Judges chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.’”
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Judges 21:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
21 and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22 When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
23 The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
24 And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
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Cross-references
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Philemon 1:9I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
Philemon 1:10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.
Philemon 1:11Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
Philemon 1:12I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.
Judges 21:14And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 7:13On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
Mark 10:6However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Mark 10:7‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Mark 10:8and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Judges 21:1Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
Judges 21:7What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
Judges 21:18But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”
Proverbs 20:25It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.