Judges 19:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

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Genesis 22:24

And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.

Genesis 35:19

So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath which is Beth-lehem.

2 Samuel 16:22

So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

2 Samuel 19:5

And Joab came into the house to the king and said, Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants who even now have kept you and your sons and your daughters and your wives and all your women safe from death;

2 Samuel 20:3

And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

2 Samuel 3:7

Now Saul had among his wives a woman named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Why have you taken my father's wife?

2 Samuel 5:13

And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

1 Kings 4:8

And these are their names: (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

2 Chronicles 11:21

Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 2:14

In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

Daniel 5:3

Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.

Malachi 2:15

(UNTRANSLATED TEXT) So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

Matthew 2:6

You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

Joshua 24:30

And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.

Joshua 24:33

Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

Judges 12:8

And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

Judges 17:1

Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

Judges 17:8

And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

Judges 18:1

In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 18:13

From there they went on to the hill-country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

Judges 19:16

Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Judges 19:2

And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

Judges 21:25

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

Judges 3:27

And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.