Judges 21:14

Modern English Version

So the Benjamites returned at that time, and they gave to them the women who were still alive from among the women of Jabesh-gilead. Yet they did not find enough for them.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Judges 20:47

However, six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness, to Rimmon Rock. They dwelt at Rimmon Rock for four months.

Judges 21:12

So among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21:13

Then the whole assembly sent someone to speak to the Benjamites who were at Rimmon Rock, and they declared peace.

Judges 21:15

The people felt sorry for Benjamin, for the Lord had made a gap among the tribes of Israel.

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 21:8

And they said, “Is there anyone from among the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp, from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.