Judges 21:1

Modern English Version

In Mizpah the men of Israel had taken an oath: “No one among us will give his daughter to a Benjamite as his wife.”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Do not be quick to speak with your mouth, or be hasty to utter a word before God with your heart. For God is in heaven, and you are on the earth; therefore may your words be few.

Jeremiah 4:2

You shall swear, “As the Lord lives,” in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they shall glory.

Jeremiah 40:6

Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

Mark 6:23

And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

Acts 23:12

At daybreak some of the Jews conspired under oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Judges 20:1

All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba, and also from the land of Gilead, went out and gathered together in an assembly as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 20:10

We will take ten men out of every hundred, from every tribe of Israel, a hundred from every thousand, and a thousand from every ten thousand, to bring provisions for the troops. Then when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay them for all the evil that they committed in Israel.”

Judges 20:48

Yet the men of Israel turned back against the Benjamites and struck them with the edge of the sword—city inhabitants, animals, and everything that could be found. Indeed, they set on fire every city that could be found.

Judges 20:8

All the people arose as one man and said, “Not a man among us will go to his tent, and no one will turn aside to his house.

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give them our daughters for wives, for the Israelites swore, ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”

Judges 21:22

When their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, ‘Be favorable to them for our sakes, because we did not take for each man a wife in the battle, for you have not given women to them at the time, thereby making yourselves guilty.’ ”

Judges 21:5

The Israelites said, “Who from all the tribes of Israel did not go up with the assembly to the Lord?” For they vowed a solemn oath regarding whoever did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah stating, “He must be killed.”

Judges 21:7

What can we do to find wives for those who are left? For we swore by the Lord not to give them our daughters as wives.”

1 Samuel 14:24

Now Israel’s fighting men were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under a curse, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before it is evening, and I have been avenged on my enemies.” So none of the people tasted any food.