Judges 21:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³ and said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

Common English Bible

³ “LORD, God of Israel,” they said, “why has this happened among us that as of today one tribe will be missing from Israel?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ "Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this evil happened among your people, so that this day one tribe would be taken away from us?"

Judges 21:3 Cross References

Psalm 74:1

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalm 80:12

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Proverbs 19:3

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Deuteronomy 29:24

even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Judges 21:2

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

Judges 21:4

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.