Judges 21:10-12

Wives Provided for the Tribe of Benjamin

10 So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, r "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. 11 This is what you shall do: s every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction." 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at t Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  1. Cross References
    Judges 21:5
    And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord ?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 31:17
    Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
  3. Cross References
    Joshua 18:1
    Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
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