Judges 21:22

When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we'll say to them, "Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don't worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.'"

Judges 21:1

The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, "Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite."

Judges 21:18

But we can't allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, 'Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!'

Genesis 1:27

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

Genesis 7:13

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.

Judges 21:7

How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord's name not to give them our daughters as wives."

Judges 21:14

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, "Holy!" and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.

Mark 10:6-8

But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

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Summary

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

Be favourable unto them

Bible References

Be favourable unto them

Philemon 1:9
I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love -- I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus --

Each man

Judges 21:14
The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.
Genesis 1:27
God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

Give unto

Judges 21:1
The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, "Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite."
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, "Holy!" and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.

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