Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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
for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Each man

Judges 21:14
And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Ja'besh-gil'ead; but they did not suffice for them.
Genesis 1:27
And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 7:13
On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Mark 10:6
but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:2
but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

Give unto

Judges 21:1
Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin."
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is hallowed, and after vows to make inquiry.