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 loves sake, I rather exhort, - being, such a one, as Paul the aged, now, also, even a prisoner of Christ Jesus, -

Each man

Judges 21:14
So Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, - but they found not for them to suffice , even so.
Genesis 1:27
And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him, - Male and female, created he, them.
Genesis 7:13
On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah's sons, - and Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives with them into the ark:
Mark 10:6
But, from the beginning of creation, male and female, made he them;
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:

Give unto

Judges 21:1
Now, the men of Israel, had sworn in Mizpah, saying, - Not a man from among us, shall give his daughter unto Benjamin, to wife.
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man, that he should rashly cry Holy! and, after making vows, to reflect!