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
I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

Each man

Judges 21:14
Benjamin returned at that time, and Israel gave them the women they had kept alive from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough for them.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image;
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.
Genesis 7:13
On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his three sons’ wives entered the ark with him.
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

Give unto

Judges 21:1
The men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah: “None of us will give his daughter to a Benjaminite in marriage.”
Proverbs 20:25
It is a trap for anyone to dedicate something rashly
and later to reconsider his vows.

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