| Book of Judges |
| Chapter 17 |
- 17:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
 [ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
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- 17:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He said to his mother, "The eleven * hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the LORD."
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- 17:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He then returned the eleven * hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, "I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you."
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- 17:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.
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- 17:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And the man Micah had a shrine * and he made an ephod and household idols and consecrated * one of his sons, that he might become his priest.
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- 17:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
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- 17:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
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- 17:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
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- 17:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place."
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- 17:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Micah then said to him, "Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance." So the Levite went in.
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- 17:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
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- 17:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So Micah consecrated * the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.
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- 17:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest."
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| Chapter 18 |
- 18:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.
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- 18:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, search the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
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- 18:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When they were near the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite; and they turned aside there and said to him, "Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?"
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- 18:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He said to them, "Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest."
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- 18:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They said to him, "Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous."
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- 18:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The priest said to them, "Go in peace; your way in which you are going has the LORD'S approval."
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- 18:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no ruler * humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
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- 18:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, "What do you report?"
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- 18:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you sit still? Do not delay to go, to enter, to possess the land.
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- 18:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "When you enter, you will come to a secure people with a spacious * land; for God has given it into your hand, a place where * there is no lack of anything * that is on the earth."
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- 18:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.
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- 18:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. Therefore * they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
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- 18:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.
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- 18:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do."
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- 18:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
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- 18:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
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- 18:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
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- 18:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When these went into Micah's house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"
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- 18:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They said to him, "Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"
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- 18:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and went among the people.
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- 18:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the valuables in front of them.
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- 18:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When they had gone some distance from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house assembled and overtook the sons of Dan.
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- 18:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They cried to the sons of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, "What is the matter with you, that you have assembled together?"
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- 18:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what do I have besides? So how * can you say to me, 'What is the matter with you?' "
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- 18:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Dan said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, or else fierce * men will fall upon you and you will lose your life, with the lives of your household."
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- 18:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the sons of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
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- 18:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then they took what Micah had made and the priest who had belonged to him, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burned the city with fire.
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- 18:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And there was no one to deliver them, because it was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone, and it was in the valley which is near Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
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- 18:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.
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- 18:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
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- 18:31 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So they set up for themselves Micah's graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.
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| Chapter 19 |
- 19:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.
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- 19:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of four months.
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- 19:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then her husband arose and went after her to speak tenderly to her in order to bring her back, taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father's house, and when the girl's father saw him, he was glad to meet him.
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- 19:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - His father-in-law, the girl's father, detained him; and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there.
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- 19:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to go; and the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Sustain yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward you may go."
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- 19:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So both of them sat down and ate and drank together; and the girl's father said to the man, "Please be willing to spend the night, and let your heart be merry."
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- 19:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the man arose to go, but his father-in-law urged him so that he spent the night there again.
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- 19:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - On the fifth day he arose to go early in the morning, and the girl's father said, "Please sustain yourself, and wait until afternoon *"; so both of them ate.
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- 19:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When the man arose to go along with his concubine and servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold now, the day has drawn to a close; please spend the night. Lo, the day is coming to an end; spend the night here that your heart may be merry. Then tomorrow you may arise early for your journey so that you may go home."
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- 19:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But the man was not willing to spend the night, so he arose and departed and came to a place opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem ). And there were with him a pair of saddled donkeys; his concubine also was with him.
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- 19:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When they were near Jebus, the day was almost gone; and the servant said to his master, "Please come, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it."
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- 19:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - However, his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners who are not of the sons of Israel; but we will go on as far as Gibeah."
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- 19:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He said to his servant, "Come and let us approach one of these places; and we will spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."
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- 19:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So they passed along and went their way, and the sun set on them near Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin.
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- 19:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They turned aside there in order to enter and lodge in Gibeah. When they entered, they sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.
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- 19:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.
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- 19:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler * in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going, and where do you come from?"
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- 19:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to my house, and no man will take me into his house.
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- 19:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything *."
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- 19:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The old man said, "Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square."
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- 19:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So he took him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank.
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- 19:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - While they were celebrating *, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house that we may have relations with him."
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- 19:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my fellows, please do not act so wickedly; since * this man has come into my house, do not commit this act of folly.
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- 19:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please let me bring them out that you may ravish them and do to them whatever you wish, *. But do not commit such an act of folly against this man."
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- 19:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them; and they raped her and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the approach of dawn.
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- 19:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - As the day began to dawn *, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man's house where * her master was, until full daylight.
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- 19:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, then behold, his concubine was lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.
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- 19:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He said to her, "Get up and let us go," but there was no answer. Then he placed her on the donkey; and the man arose and went to his home.
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- 19:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When he entered his house, he took a knife and laid hold of his concubine and cut her in twelve * pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
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- 19:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - All who saw it said, "Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it, take counsel and speak up!"
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| Chapter 20 |
- 20:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then all the sons of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, came out, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.
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- 20:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 * * foot soldiers who drew the sword.
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- 20:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - (Now the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the sons of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness take place?"
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- 20:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came with my concubine to spend the night at Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin.
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- 20:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "But the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me; instead, they ravished my concubine so that she died.
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- 20:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "And I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout the land of Israel's inheritance; for they have committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
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- 20:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "Behold, all you sons of Israel, give your advice and counsel here."
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- 20:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then all the people arose as one man, saying, "Not one of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us return to his house.
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- 20:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot.
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- 20:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "And we will take 10 men out of 100 throughout the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of 1,000, and 1,000 out of 10,000 * to supply food for the people, that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may punish them for all the disgraceful acts that they have committed in Israel."
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- 20:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Thus all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one man.
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- 20:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the tribes of Israel sent men through the entire tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this wickedness that has taken place among you?
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- 20:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "Now then, deliver up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove this wickedness from Israel." But the sons of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel.
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- 20:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.
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- 20:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were numbered, 26,000 *, * men who draw the sword, besides * the inhabitants of Gibeah who were numbered, 700 * choice men.
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- 20:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Out of all these people 700 * choice men were left-handed * *; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
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- 20:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the men of Israel besides * Benjamin were numbered, 400,000 * * men who draw the sword; all these were men of war.
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- 20:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now the sons of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God and said, "Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin?" Then the LORD said, "Judah shall go up first."
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- 20:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the sons of Israel arose in the morning and camped against Gibeah.
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- 20:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel arrayed for battle against them at Gibeah.
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- 20:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and felled to the ground on that day 22,000 * * men of Israel.
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- 20:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again in the place where * they had arrayed themselves the first day.
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- 20:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall we again draw near for battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin?" And the LORD said, "Go up against him."
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- 20:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the sons of Israel came against the sons of Benjamin the second day.
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- 20:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah the second day and felled to the ground again 18,000 * * men of the sons of Israel; all these drew the sword.
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- 20:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then all the sons of Israel and all the people went up and came to Bethel and wept; thus they remained there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
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- 20:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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- 20:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Aaron's son, stood before it to minister in those days ), saying, "Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand."
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- 20:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.
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- 20:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as at other times.
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- 20:31 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike and kill some of the people as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
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- 20:32 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the sons of Israel said, "Let us flee that we may draw them away from the city to the highways."
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- 20:33 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then all the men of Israel arose from their place and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar; and the men of Israel in ambush broke out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba *.
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- 20:34 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When ten thousand choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, the battle became fierce; but Benjamin did not know that disaster was close to them.
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- 20:35 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 * * * men of Benjamin that day, all who draw the sword.
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- 20:36 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. When the men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah,
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- 20:37 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush also deployed and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
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- 20:38 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise from the city.
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- 20:39 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill * about thirty men of Israel, for they said, "Surely * they are defeated before us, as in the first battle."
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- 20:40 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, Benjamin looked behind them; and behold, the whole city was going up in smoke to heaven.
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- 20:41 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified; for they saw that disaster was close to them.
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- 20:42 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them while those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.
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- 20:43 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They surrounded Benjamin, pursued them without rest and trod them down opposite Gibeah toward the east *.
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- 20:44 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Thus 18,000 * * men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant warriors.
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- 20:45 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but they caught 5,000 * of them on the highways and overtook them at Gidom and killed 2,000 of them.
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- 20:46 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So all of Benjamin who fell that day were 25,000 * * men who draw the sword; all these were valiant warriors.
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- 20:47 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But 600, * men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.
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- 20:48 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.
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- 21:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "None * of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin in marriage."
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- 21:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly *.
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- 21:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They said, "Why, O LORD, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today in Israel?"
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- 21:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - It came about the next day that the people arose early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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- 21:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the sons of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
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- 21:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.
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- 21:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"
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- 21:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead * to the assembly.
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- 21:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - For when the people were numbered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead * was there.
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- 21:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And the congregation sent 12,000 * * of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead * with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
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- 21:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain * with a man."
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- 21:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead * 400 * young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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- 21:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the whole congregation sent word and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
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- 21:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead *; yet they were not enough for them.
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- 21:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And the people were sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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- 21:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"
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- 21:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - They said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel.
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- 21:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "But we cannot * give them wives of our daughters." For the sons of Israel had sworn, saying, "Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin."
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- 21:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So they said, "Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east * side * of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah."
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- 21:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
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- 21:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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- 21:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "It shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, 'Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin a wife in battle, nor * did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.' "
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- 21:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.
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- 21:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.
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- 21:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Original: Hebrew / Greek | Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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