Judges 21:22

Modern English Version

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.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 7:13

On the very same day Noah and the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for a man to devote rashly a thing as holy, and after making vows to reconsider his consecration.

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 21:1

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

Judges 21:14

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.

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 21:7

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.”