Judges 21:8

Easy To Read Version

Then the people of Israel asked, “Which one of the family groups of Israel did not come here to Mizpah? We have come together before the Lord. Surely one family was not here!” Then they found that no one from the city of Jabesh Gilead had met together with the other people of Israel.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 10:11

All the people living in the town of Jabesh Gilead heard everything the Philistine people had done to Saul.

Judges 21:7

We made a promise before the Lord. We promised not to allow our daughters to marry a man from Benjamin. How can we make sure that the men of Benjamin will have wives?

Judges 21:9

The people of Israel counted everyone to see who was there and who was not. They found that no one from Jabesh Gilead was there.

Judges 5:23

The Angel of the Lord said, “Curse the city of Meroz. Curse its people! They did not come with soldiers to help the Lord.”

1 Samuel 11:7

Saul took a pair of cows and cut them in pieces. Then he gave the pieces of those cows to messengers. He ordered the messengers to carry the pieces throughout the land of Israel. He told them to give this message to the people of Israel: “Come follow Saul and Samuel. If any person does not come and help them, then this same thing will happen to his cows!”

1 Samuel 11:9

Saul and his army told the messengers from Jabesh, “Tell the people at Jabesh in Gilead that by noon tomorrow, you will be saved.”