Judges 21 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, Not any of us shall give his daughter unto Benjamin for wife. ² And the people came to Beth-el, and abode there till the evening, before God, and they lifted up their voices, and wept with a great lamentation; ³ And they said, Wherefore, O Lord, God of Israel, is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be lacking this day out of Israel one tribe? 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. 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 there had been taken the great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. ⁶ And the children of Israel felt regret for Benjamin their brother, and they said, One tribe hath this day been cut down from Israel. ⁷ What shall we do as respecteth wives for those that remain, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will give none of our daughters unto them for wives? ⁸ And they said, what one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto the Lord to Mizpah? And, behold, there had not come to the camp a man from Yabesh-gil’ad to the assembly. ⁹ For the people were numbered, and, behold, there was not present a man of the inhabitants of Yabesh-gil’ad. ¹⁰ And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand persons of the valiant men, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Yabesh-gil’ad with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. ¹¹ And this is the thing that ye shall do, every male, and every woman that hath known man by lying with him, shall ye devote. ¹² And they found among the inhabitants of Yabesh-gil’ad four hundred young virgins that had not known man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. ¹³ And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin that were on the rock Rimmon, and offered them peace. ¹⁴ And Benjamin returned at that time: and they gave unto them the wives whom they had saved alive out of the women of Yabesh-gil’ad; but they found not sufficient for them in this way. ¹⁵ And the people felt regret for Benjamin; because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. ¹⁶ And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for those that remain as respecteth wives; because the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin? ¹⁷ And they said, Their inheritance must be secured for Benjamin, that not a tribe may be blotted out from Israel. ¹⁸ Nevertheless we ourselves are not able to give them wives of our daughters; for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. ¹⁹ And they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh from year to year at a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. ²⁰ And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go ye and lie in wait in the vineyards; ²¹ And look out, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh go out to dance in dances: then come ye forth out of the vineyards, and snatch you every man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go then to the land of Benjamin. ²² And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to contend with us, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes; because we took not for each man his wife in the war; and because ye yourselves did not give them unto them, that ye should at this time be guilty. ²³ And the children of Benjamin did so, and took themselves wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they had stolen away; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities, and dwelt in them. 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 there every man to his inheritance. ²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what was right in his own eyes.

¹² Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land against which thou goest up, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee; ¹³ But their altars shall ye destroy, and their statues shall ye break, and their groves shall ye cut down. ¹⁴ For thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord whose name is Watchful, is a watchful God. ¹⁵ Make thou then no covenant with the inhabitants of the land; lest that, if they go astray after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, any one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; ¹⁶ And lest thou take of his daughters unto thy sons; and when his daughters go astray after their gods, they make thy sons also go astray after their gods.

² And when the Lord thy God shall give them up before thee, and thou dost smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make any covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. ³ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughters shalt thou not give unto his son, and his daughter shalt thou not take unto thy son.

³⁰ And Yiphthach made a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of ‘Ammon into my hand, ³¹ Then shall it be, that whatsoever cometh forth out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of ‘Ammon, shall belong to the Lord, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.

¹ Then went out all the children of Israel, and the congregation was assembled together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba’, with the land of Gil’ad, unto the Lord in Mizpah.

⁸ And all the people then arose as one man, saying, We will not go any of us to his tent, neither will we turn any of us into his house.

¹⁰ And we will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to procure provisions for the people; that they may do, when they come to Gib’ah of Benjamin, in accordance with all the scandalous deed that they have wrought in Israel.

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 there had been taken the great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

⁷ What shall we do as respecteth wives for those that remain, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will give none of our daughters unto them for wives?

¹⁸ Nevertheless we ourselves are not able to give them wives of our daughters; for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

²⁴ And the men of Israel were hard urged that day; and Saul adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that will eat food until the evening, until I have been avenged on my enemies. And the whole people tasted thus no food.

²⁸ Then commenced one of the people, and said, Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that will eat food this day; though the people were faint. ²⁹ Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how my eyes become clear, because I have tasted a little of this honey.

^{2 (5:1)} Suffer not thy mouth to be rash, and let thy heart not be hasty to utter any word before God; for God is in the heavens, and thou art upon the earth: therefore let thy words be few.

² And if thou wilt swear, As the Lord liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness: then shall nations bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glorify themselves.

³⁸ And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me, also me, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

¹ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up there the tabernacle of the congregation. And the land was subdued before them.

⁴ And it came to pass, when the messenger of the Lord spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

¹⁸ And they arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and the children of Israel said, Who of us shall go up at first to the battle with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah, at first.

²³ And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until the evening, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I again approach to battle with the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.

²⁶ Now all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted on that day until the evening, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

¹² And they found among the inhabitants of Yabesh-gil’ad four hundred young virgins that had not known man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

⁴ And David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

^{24 (29:23)} Even all the nations will say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Eternal, wherefore hast thou caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us? and oh! that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! ⁸ I pray thee, O Lord, what shall I say, since Israel have turned their back before their enemies! ⁹ And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

¹ A Maskil of Assaph. Why, O God, hast thou cast us off for ever? why will thy anger smoke against the flock of thy pasture?

^{12 (80:13)} Wherefore hast thou now broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way pluck the fruit from it?

³ The folly of a man perverteth his way, and against the Lord will his heart rage.

¹⁷ Why hast thou let us go astray, O Lord, from thy ways, suffered our heart to be hardened against thy fear? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.

¹ Too righteous art thou, O Lord, that I could plead with thee; yet must I speak of the principles of justice with thee: Wherefore is the way of the wicked happy? do all those prosper that deal treacherously?

²⁴ An altar of earth shalt thou make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thy oxen; in every place where I shall permit my name to be mentioned, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. ²⁵ And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

²⁶ And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, on the level place, and take the second bullock, and offer it as a burnt-sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

¹⁸ And Gad came to David on that day, and said unto him, Go up, erect an altar unto the Lord on the threshing-floor of Aravnah the Jebusite.

²⁵ And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

⁶⁴ On the same day did the king hallow the interior of the court that was before the house of the Lord; for he prepared there the burnt-offerings, and the meat-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the copper altar that was before the Lord was too small to contain the burnt-offerings, and the meat-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

³⁴ When he slew them, then did they seek him, and they returned and inquired earnestly after God. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the most high God their redeemer.

¹⁵ I will go from here, and return to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my presence: in their affliction will they seek for me.

²⁸ But any devoted thing, which a man may devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall not be sold nor redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord. ²⁹ Any one condemned, who shall be condemned to death among men, shall not be redeemed: he shall be put to death.

²³ Curse ye Meroz, saith the messenger of the Lord, yea, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the mighty.

¹ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, Not any of us shall give his daughter unto Benjamin for wife.

⁷ And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them about throughout all the boundary of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, Whosoever goeth not forth after Saul and after Samuel, shall have his herds thus treated. And the dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one man.

¹⁰ Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord negligently, and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.

³⁵ And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his garments, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast bent me down very low, and thou art one of those that trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

¹⁵ And the people felt regret for Benjamin; because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

²⁶ And Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall for everlasting the sword devour? knowest thou not that it will be bitter in the end? and how long shall it be, ere thou wilt bid the people to return from pursuing their brethren?

⁸ How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I surrender thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I change thee as Zeboyim? turned is my heart within me, all my compassion is enkindled together.

⁴⁵ And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? This shall not be: as the Lord liveth, there shall not fall one hair of his head to the ground; for with God hath he wrought this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, and he died not.

¹ Then came up Nachash the ‘Ammonite, and encamped against Yabesh-gil’ad: and all the men of Yabesh said unto Nachash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. ² And Nachash the ‘Ammonite said unto them, On this condition will I make it with you, that ye all have put out the right eye, that I may lay it as a reproach upon all Israel. ³ And the elders of Yabesh said unto him, Grant us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers throughout all the boundary of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, will we come out to thee.

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of Yabeshgil’ad heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul: ¹² Then arose all the valiant men, and walked all the night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Yabesh, and burnt them there. ¹³ And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree at Yabesh, and they fasted seven days.

⁵ And David thereupon sent messengers unto the men of Yabesh-gil’ad, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye have done this kindness unto your Lord, unto Saul, and have buried him. ⁶ And now may the Lord deal with you in kindness and truth: and as for me also, I will requite you this good deed, because ye have done this thing.

^{15 (13:16)} Then shalt thou smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, devoting it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, to the edge of the sword.

²⁴ And Joshua took ‘Achan the son of Zerach, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his ox, and his ass, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had, and all Israel were with him, and they brought them up unto the valley of ‘Achor.

³ Now go and smite ‘Amalek, and devote all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and lamb, camel and ass.

¹⁷ And now kill ye every male among the little ones, and every woman that hath known man by lying with him shall ye kill. ¹⁸ But all among the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

³⁴ And we conquered all his cities at that time, and devoted every inhabited city, and the women, and the little ones; we left none that escaped.

⁶⁰ And he cast off the dwelling at Shiloh, the tabernacle where he had dwelt among men;

¹² For go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did unto it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹⁰ When thou comest nigh unto a city to make war against it, then summon it with words of peace.

³² And Lebaoth, and Shilchim, and ‘Ayin, and Rimmon: in all twenty and nine cities, with their villages.

⁴⁷ But six hundred men turned and fled into the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and they abode on the rock Rimmon four months.

¹⁹ Creating the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him that is afar off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

⁶ And the children of Israel felt regret for Benjamin their brother, and they said, One tribe hath this day been cut down from Israel.

¹⁷ And they said, Their inheritance must be secured for Benjamin, that not a tribe may be blotted out from Israel.

¹¹ And it was grievious to David, because the Lord had suddenly taken away ‘Uzza; and he called that place Perez-’uzza [Breach of ‘Uzza] until this day.

¹³ For, because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach among us; because we had not sought him after the prescribed manner.

¹³ Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a threatening breach, swelling out in a high-towering wall, the fall of which will come unawares, suddenly.

¹² And they that spring from thee shall build up the ancient ruins; the foundations of many generations shalt thou raise up again: and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breaches, The restorer of paths to the dwelling-place.

⁵⁵ Nevertheless, through the lot shall the land be divided: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they obtain their inheritance.

⁷ And the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not pass from tribe to tribe; but the children of Israel shall adhere every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

¹⁴ Three times shalt thou keep a feast unto me in the year. ¹⁵ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month of Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty. ¹⁶ And the feast of harvest, of the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in thy field: and the feast of ingathering, at the conclusion of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.

² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations,—these are my feasts:

⁴ These are the feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons:

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days must ye eat unleavened bread.

¹⁰ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye shall have come into the land which I give unto you, and reap the harvest thereof: then shall ye bring an omer full of the first of your harvest unto the priest;

³⁴ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.

¹⁰ And on the day of your gladness, and on your appointed festivals, and on the beginnings of your months, shall ye blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, the passover-lamb must be offered unto the Lord.

²⁶ And on the day of the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meat-offering unto the Lord, after your weeks are out, shall ye have a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do.

¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month shall ye have a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do; and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days.

¹ Observe the month of Abib, and prepare the passover-sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; for in the month of Abib did the Lord thy God bring thee forth out of Egypt by night.

¹⁰ And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give: according as the Lord thy God shall have blessed thee.

¹³ The feast of tabernacles shalt thou hold for thyself seven days, when thou hast gathered in the produce of thy threshing-floor and of thy wine-press:

³¹ And they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, which he had made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

³ And this man went up out of his city from year to year to prostrate himself and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And at that place were the two sons of ‘Eli, Chophni and Phinehas, priests of the Lord.

^{3 (81:4)} Blow on the new moon the cornet, at the time appointed, on the day of our feast.

²⁰ Then took Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

³⁴ And Yiphthach came to Mizpah unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his sole child; he had beside her neither son nor daughter.

⁶ And it came to pass as they came home, when David returned from smiting the Philistines, that the women came forth out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with triangles.

¹⁴ And David danced with all his might before the Lord; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

²¹ And David said unto Michal, Before the Lord, who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to ordain me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel:—yea, before the Lord will I yet farther play.

³ Let them praise his name in the dance: with the timbrel and harp let them sing praises unto him.

⁴ Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.

⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

^{13 (31:12)} Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and youth and old men together: and I will change their mourning into gladness, and I will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

²⁷ And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

¹³ On that self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

¹⁴ And Benjamin returned at that time: and they gave unto them the wives whom they had saved alive out of the women of Yabesh-gil’ad; but they found not sufficient for them in this way.

²⁵ It is a snare to a man to sanctify things hastily, and to make inquiry only after having made vows.

⁴⁸ And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beasts, and all that was found: also all the cities that they came upon did they set on fire.

⁸ Ye shall not do after all the manner that we do here this day, every one whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right in his own eyes.

¹ In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites were seeking for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for there had not fallen to their share up to that day among the tribes of Israel a sufficient inheritance.

⁷ And the five men departed, and came to Layish, and saw the people that were therein, dwelling in security, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and no one inflicted any wrong in the land, as hereditary ruler; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no concern with any man.

¹ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the lower edge of the mountain of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine out of Beth-lechem-judah.

^{4 (12:5)} Who have said, With our tongue will we be mighty; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us!

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all thy heart: and upon thy own understanding do not rely.

¹² There is many a way which seemeth even before a man; but its end are ways unto death.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youthful vigor, and walk firmly in the ways of thy heart, and in the direction which thy eyes see: but know thou, that concerning all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

¹ Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.