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

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 Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
Genesis 1:27
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 7:13
In the selfsame day entered 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, Male and female made he them.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of fornications, 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 unto Benjamin to wife.
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, And after vows to make inquiry.

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