Judges 21 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now the children of Israel had sworn at Massepha, saying, Not a man of us shall give his daughter to a Benjaminite to wife. ² So when the people came to Baithel they sat there till evening before God, then raising their voice, they wept bitterly ³ and said, Why Lord God of Israel hath this happened that there should be this day one tribe cut off from Israel? ⁴ And on the day following the people arose early in the morning, and built there an altar, and offered whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. ⁵ Then the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord at the general assembly? For they had denounced the great curse against those who came not up before the Lord to Massepha, saying, Let him assuredly be put to death. ⁶ Now the children of Israel had felt compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is now one tribe cut off from Israel, ⁷ What shall we do for wives for the few who are left, seeing we have sworn by the Lord, that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives? ⁸ So when they said, Who is there among the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord to Massepha? and behold not a man had come to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the general assembly, ⁹ and the people were reviewed, and there was not a man of the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad; ¹⁰ the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men from among the young warriors, and gave them a charge saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the edge of the sword: ¹¹ And this you shall do, You shall devote to destruction every male, and every woman who hath cohabited with man: ¹² but the virgins you shall preserve alive. And having done so they found among the inhabitants four hundred young virgins who had not cohabited with man, and brought them to the camp of Selom which is in the land of Chanaan. ¹³ Then all the congregation sent, and spoke to the children of Benjamin at Rock Remmon, and invited them to peace. ¹⁴ And when Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, the Israelites gave them the women whom they had saved alive from among the daughters of Jabis Galaad. ¹⁵ So they were pleased, and the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach among the tribes of Israel. ¹⁶ Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for the rest? For all the women of Benjamin are destroyed: ¹⁷ [Now they had determined that the inheritance of the Benjaminites should belong to them who had escaped, that a tribe might not be blotted out from Israel:] ¹⁸ for we cannot give them any of our daughters for wives; for we have sworn among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed be the man who giveth a wife to a Benjaminite. ¹⁹ Then they said, Behold there is a festival of the Lord at Selom, which is kept yearly, on the north of Baithel, towards the rising of the sun, on the high way which goeth up from Baithel to Sychem, and on the south of Lebona. ²⁰ So they gave a charge to the Benjaminites saying, Go and lie in wait among the vineyards, ²¹ and watch, and behold when the daughters of the inhabitants of Selom go out to dance in choirs, start out from the vineyards, and seize for yourselves every man a wife from among the daughters of Selom, and go to the land of Benjamin. ²² And when their fathers or their brothers come to us, to enter a complaint before us, we will say to them, Grant them as a favour to us, because we did not take every man a woman at the battle. Seeing you have not given them, you have, as it were, accidentally transgressed. ²³ And the children of Benjamin did so. And having taken wives according to their number from among the choirs whom they surprised, they went, and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt their cities and dwelt therein. ²⁴ And the children of Israel went at that time every man to his tribe, and to his kindred, and went out thence every man to his possession. ²⁵ And in those days, there being no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes.

¹² Take thou heed to thyself that thou make not a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou art going, lest it become a stumbling block to you. ¹³ Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces; and their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. ¹⁴ For you must not worship other gods; for the Lord God, a zealous name, is a zealous God. ¹⁵ Peradventure, shouldst thou make a covenant with those settled in that land, when they go a whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite thee thou mayst eat with them; ¹⁶ and shouldst thou take their daughters for thy sons and give some of thy daughters to their sons, thy daughters may go a whoring after their gods and thy sons may go a whoring after their gods.

² When the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy, ³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.

³⁰ And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, ³¹ it shall be, that whosoever cometh from the door of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be for the Lord. Him will I dedicate as a whole burnt offering.

¹ So all the children of Israel set out, and the congregation assembled as one man from Dan to Bersabee, and from the land of Galaad, before the Lord at Massepha.

⁸ Then all the people arose as one man, and said, We will not, any of us go to his habitation, nor shall any of us return to his house;

¹⁰ But let us take ten men for the hundreds through all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for the thousands and a thousand for the ten thousands to collect provisions, and bring them to Gabaa of Benjamin, that we may do to it according to the abominable act which it hath committed in Israel.

⁵ Then the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord at the general assembly? For they had denounced the great curse against those who came not up before the Lord to Massepha, saying, Let him assuredly be put to death.

⁷ What shall we do for wives for the few who are left, seeing we have sworn by the Lord, that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?

¹⁸ for we cannot give them any of our daughters for wives; for we have sworn among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed be the man who giveth a wife to a Benjaminite.

²⁴ But Saul was guilty of a great imprudence that day; for he uttered an imprecation to the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eateth bread till evening, that I may take vengeance on mine enemy; so that none of the people tasted bread, though all the country was dining.

²⁸ And one of the people addressing him said, Thy father solemnly adjured the people saying, Cursed be the man who eateth bread this day, so the people are become faint. ²⁹ And when Jonathan knew this he said, My father hath troubled the land. See how my eyes have sparkled, because I tasted a little of this honey.

² be thou not rash with thy mouth; nor let thy heart be hasty to utter a word in the presence of God. Because God is in the heaven above, and thou art on the earth, let thy words there fore be few.

² As the Lord liveth" with truth in judgment and justice: then shall the nations bless by him, and by him praise God in Jerusalem.

²³ nay, he swore to her, Whatever thou shalt ask of me, I will give, even to the half of my kingdom.

¹² And in the course of the day some of the Jews, having entered into a conspiracy, bound themselves by the solemn Anathema, saying they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless, I beseech thee, me also, father. And Isaak being deeply affected, Esau raised his voice and wept.

¹ When all the congregation of Israel assembled at Selo, and fixed there the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued under them,

⁴ And when the messenger of the Lord had spoken these words to all the children of Israel, the people wept aloud.

¹⁸ And they arose, and went up to Baithel, and inquired of God. And the children of Israel said, Who shall go up as our commander in chief to battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said Juda shall go up as commander in chief.

²³ The sons of Israel had indeed gone up, and wept before the Lord till evening, and inquired of the Lord saying, Shall we again proceed to draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin our brethren And the Lord said, Go up against them.

²⁶ Upon this all the children of Israel, even the whole people went up and came to Baithel, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted the whole day till evening, and offered whole burnt offerings and sacrifices before the Lord.

¹² but the virgins you shall preserve alive. And having done so they found among the inhabitants four hundred young virgins who had not cohabited with man, and brought them to the camp of Selom which is in the land of Chanaan.

⁴ David and his men raised their voices, and wept till they had no more power to weep.

²⁴ When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation?

⁷ Joshua said, Alas, Lord! Why hath thy servant caused this people to cross the Jordan, to deliver them up to the Amorite to destroy us? Should we have tarried, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan? ⁸ What can I say, seeing Israel hath turned back from before his enemy? ⁹ When the Chananite, and all the inhabitants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name?

¹ Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture?

¹² Why hast thou broken down its hedge; that all who pass by the way, may pluck it?

³ The folly of a man maketh his ways destructive; but in his heart he blameth God.

¹⁷ why, O Lord hast thou suffered us to wander from thy way, and our hearts to be hardened so as not to fear thee? Return for the sake of thy servants; for the sake of the tribes of thy heritage,

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy?

²⁴ An altar of earth you shall make for me, and sacrifice thereon your whole burnt offerings and your offerings of thanksgiving, both your sheep and your young bulls in every place where I record my name. ²⁵ And I will come to thee and bless thee. And if thou makest for me an altar of stones; thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for thou hast put thy workmanship on them and they are polluted.

²⁶ thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God, on the top of Maozi, in the parade; and thou shalt take the second bull, and offer whole burnt offerings on the wood of the arbour which thou hast demolished.

¹⁸ Then Gad came to David that day, and said to him, Go up and erect an altar for the Lord, on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.

²⁵ And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered whole burnt offerings and peace offerings. Now Solomon afterwards enlarged this altar; for at first it was small. Thus the Lord was entreated for the land, and the slaughter was stopped from Israel.

⁶⁴ the king on the same day consecrated the middle of the court in front of the house of the Lord, for he offered there the whole burnt offerings with the sacrifices and the suet of the thank offerings, because the brazen altar which was before the Lord was too small for the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifices of the thank offerings to be offered thereon.

³⁴ When he smote them and they sought him, and returned and inquired early after God, ³⁵ and remembered that God was their helper, and that God the Most High was their redeemer;

¹⁵ I will sally forth and return to my place until they are made desolate, then they will seek my face.

¹⁰ We have an altar from which they who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

²⁸ But with respect to every Anathema which a man may devote to the Lord from all that he hath, whether from man or beast, or from field of his possession, it shall not be sold nor redeemed. Every anathema shall be most sacredly devoted to the Lord. ²⁹ And every thing which hath been devoted as an anathema from among men, shall not be redeemable, but by death.

²³ Curse Meroz, said the messenger of the Lord. Curse ye it bitterly. Cursed be every one who dwelleth therein, Because they came not to the help of the Lord; To the help of the Lord among the mighty.

¹ Now the children of Israel had sworn at Massepha, saying, Not a man of us shall give his daughter to a Benjaminite to wife.

⁷ and taking two heifers, he cut them in pieces, and sent them to all the borders of Israel, by the hands of messengers, saying, So shall be done to every man's cattle who goeth not out after Saul and after Samuel. And a dread of the Lord came on all the people of Israel, and they came out as one man.

¹⁰ He is cursed who doth the work of the Lord negligently, withholding his sword from blood.

³⁵ And when he saw her he rent his clothes, and said, Alas! Alas! my daughter! Thou hast indeed troubled me; and thou thyself mayst be in trouble with me, for I have opened my mouth to the Lord against thee, and I cannot go back.

¹⁵ So they were pleased, and the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

²⁶ Then Abenner called to Joab, and said, Must the sword devour to a complete victory? Knowest thou not that in the last extremity it will be very bitter? How long shall it be ere thou command the people to return from pursuing our brethren?

⁸ [J] What shall I do with thee, Ephraim? Shall I shield thee, Israel? What must I do with thee? Shall I make thee as Adama and as Seboim? My heart relenteth for him. My compassion is moved.

⁴¹ And as he drew near he viewed the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, O that thou hadst known; even thou; even in this very ay of thine, the things which were for thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes.

⁴⁵ Upon this the people said to Saul, Shall he this day be put to death who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? As the Lord liveth there shall not a hair of his head fall to the ground. Because the people of God had that day performed exploits, therefore the people prayed for Jonathan that day, and he did not die.

¹ About a month after this Nahas, the Ammanite, came up and encamped against Jabis Galaad, and all the men of Jabis Galaad said to Nahas, the Ammanite, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. ² Thereupon Nahas the Ammanite said to them, On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach to Israel. ³ And the men of Jabis said to him, Grant us seven days that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and if there be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee.

¹¹ But when the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² they arose, even all the men of valour, and marched the whole night, and took the body of Saul, and the body of Jonathan his son, from the wall of Baithsam, and carried them to Jabis and there burned them. ¹³ Then they took their bones, and buried them in the field at Jabis, and fasted seven days.

⁵ David sent messengers to the leaders of Jabis Galaad, and said unto them, Blessed are ye of the Lord, because you have shewn this kindness for your lord; for Saul, the anointed of the Lord; and have buried him and his son Jonathan. ⁶ Now therefore may the Lord deal mercifully and truly with you! As for me I will recompense you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

¹⁵ thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaughter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to destruction, it and all that are in it.

²⁴ Then Joshua took Achar, son of Zara, and led him up to the valley of Achor, with his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his asses, and all his flocks, and his tent, and all his goods, and all the people accompanied him. And when he had led them up to Emek-Achor,

³ Now therefore go, and smite Amelek, and Jerim, and all that belong to him. Thou shalt not spare one of him but utterly destroy him. Having devoted him and all belonging to him to destruction, thou shalt spare none, but shalt slay man and woman, infant and suckling, herds and flocks, camels and asses.

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the captives. Kill also every woman, who hath lain with man. ¹⁸ But save alive, for yourselves, every captive among the women, who hath not known a man.

³⁴ and took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city one after another; with their wives and children. We left none to be taken alive.

⁶⁰ and he abandoned the tabernacle of Selom; the tent in which he had dwelt among men;

¹² Go then to my place which was at Selo, where I caused my name to dwell at first; and see what I have done to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹⁰ And when thou art come to a city, to fight against it, thou shalt call upon the inhabitants to come out peaceably.

³² and Labos, and Sale, and Eromoth, twenty nine cities with their villages.

⁴⁷ And the remainder, being six hundred men, turned and fled to the wilderness, to the rock of Remmon, and abode at Rock Remmon four months.

¹⁹ peace upon peace to them near and to them far off. So the Lord said, I will heal them.

⁵ And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

¹⁷ And being come he hath proclaimed the glad tidings of peace to you who were far off, and to them who were near.

² but to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife; and every woman her own husband.

⁶ Now the children of Israel had felt compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is now one tribe cut off from Israel,

¹⁷ [Now they had determined that the inheritance of the Benjaminites should belong to them who had escaped, that a tribe might not be blotted out from Israel:]

¹¹ And David was disheartened because the Lord had made a breach on Oza, and called that place, Breach of Oza, which is still its name.

¹³ for because you did not do this on the former occasion, our God made a breach among us, because we did not seek him with judgment.

¹³ therefore this sin shall be to you like the tottering wall of a fortified city, which hath been taken by surprise; the fall of which is instantaneous.

¹² And thine old waste places shall be rebuilded; and thy foundations shall last for generations of generations: and thou shalt be called the repairer of breaches, and shalt enjoy rest in the midst of thy paths.

⁵⁵ Among these names the land shall be parcelled out, by lot. They shall inherit according to the tribes of their patriarchal families.

⁷ so there shall be no transferring of inheritance among the children of Israel, from one tribe to another. Because the children of Israel must be kept together, every one in the inheritance of the patriarchal family of his tribe,

¹⁴ Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me; ¹⁵ the festival of unleavened bread you shall carefully observe. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time fixed in the month of new things. For in that month thou didst come out of Egypt. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. ¹⁶ Thou shalt also keep the festival of the ingathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field.

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, With respect to the festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, set days; these are my festivals.

⁴ These are the festivals for the Lord; holy, set days, which you shall proclaim in their set times.

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of this month beginneth the festival of unleavened bread for the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest,

³⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days for the Lord.

¹⁰ In the days of your rejoicings also, and at your festivals, and at your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets, at your whole burnt offerings, and at your sacrifices of thanksgivings; and it shall be a calling of you into remembrance before the Lord; I the Lord your God.

¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the passover to the Lord,

²⁶ And on the day of new things when you bring for the Lord the new sacrifice of the weeks, there shall be a solemn festival for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service;

¹² And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a solemn festival set apart for you. You shall do no sacrificial work. And you shall celebrate this festival to the Lord seven days.

¹ Observe the month of New things, and keep the passover to the Lord thy God, because in the month of New things thou didst come out of the land of Egypt, by night.

¹⁰ And thou shalt keep the festival of weeks, to the Lord thy God, according to the ability of thy hand; according to what the Lord thy God may have given thee.

¹³ The feast of tabernacles thou shalt keep for thyself seven days. When thou hast gathered in from thy threshing floor, and from thy press,

³¹ They indeed set up for themselves the graven image which Micah made, all the time the house of God was at Selom.

³ And Phennana had children; but Anna had not a child. And this man went up, year after year, out of his city; from Armathaim, to worship, and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabbaoth, at Selom; for Eli and his two sons, Ophni and Phineas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

³ Sound the trumpet at the new moon; at the set day of your festival.

¹ After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now the Jews festival of tabernacles was near,

²⁰ therefore Mariam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took in her hand a timbrel and all the women went out after her with timbrels in choirs,

³⁴ And when the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel, and Jephthae came to Massepha, to his house, behold his daughter came out to meet him, with timbrels and choirs. Now she was his only child. Besides her, he had neither son nor daughter.

⁶ Now when the choirs of women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet David, dancing to tympanums, and singing songs of triumph, accompanied with cymbals,

¹⁴ And David played on well tuned instruments of music before the Lord; and David having put on an unusual robe,

²¹ Whereupon David said to Melchol, I will dance before the Lord. Blessed be the Lord, who hath chosen me in preference to thy father, and in preference to all his house, to make me ruler over his people, over Israel. Wherefore I will play and dance before the Lord,

³ Let them praise his name in choirs; on the tympanum and psaltery sing praises to him:

⁴ praise him with the tympanum and chorus: praise him with stringed instruments and organs;

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

¹³ Then shall virgins rejoice in the assembly of youths; the elders also shall be filled with joy; for I will turn their mourning into joy and make them glad.

¹⁷ And be upon your guard against these men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues;

²⁵ But he must first suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

²⁷ So God made man. After an image of God he made him. A male and a female he made them.

¹³ On that day Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and Noe's wife and the three wives of his sons with him went into the ark:

¹⁴ And when Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, the Israelites gave them the women whom they had saved alive from among the daughters of Jabis Galaad.

²⁵ The hasty dedication of his property is a snare to a man for after the vow a change of mind happeneth.

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation God made them a male and a female. ⁷ For this cause a man is to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. ⁸ And they two shall be one flesh. So that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁹ yet on account of this love I rather use entreaty. Being such as I am, Paul an old man, and now indeed a prisoner on account of Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ I entreat thee in respect to this son of mine whom I have begotten in my bonds; namely, Onesimus, ¹¹ who was formerly unprofitable to thee; but is now profitable both to thee and me ¹² whom I have sent back; do thou then receive him kindly, that is, as one whom I tenderly love,

⁴⁸ And the children of Israel turned back upon the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, beginning at the city Methla, including cattle and every thing throughout all the cities. And the cities which they came to, they burned with fire.

⁸ You shall not do all that we do here at this day; every one what is agreeable in his own sight;

⁶ Now in those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

¹ In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of Dan was seeking to take possession of a lot of inheritance for themselves; for even till that day they had not got possession of the inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

⁷ So the five men proceeded on and came to Laisa, and saw the people there dwelling securely. Their manner of living was tranquil like that of the Sidonians. There was none to reprove; none in the land to put them to shame for any thing. Possessing wealth they were spending it luxuriously; and they were at a great distance from the Sidonians, and had no intercourse with any man.

¹ In those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and he took him a concubine from Bethlehem Juda,

⁴ them who say, "We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?"

⁵ Trust in God with thy whole heart; and be not elated for thine own wisdom.

¹² There is a way which seemeth right to a man; but the end of it is at the bottom of Hades.

⁹ rejoice then, young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart spotless and not by the sight of thine eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment.

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance;