Judges 21:22

It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

Judges 21:1

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."

Judges 21:18

However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'"

Genesis 1:27

God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 7:13

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

Judges 21:7

How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

Judges 21:14

Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

Mark 10:6-8

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have 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
yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Each man

Judges 21:14
Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.
Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 7:13
In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Give unto

Judges 21:1
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.