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
rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Each man

Judges 21:14
And Benjamin came again at that time. And they gave them wives whom they had saved alive, of the women of Jabesh-gilead. And yet so they were not enough for them.
Genesis 1:27
And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.
Genesis 7:13
In this same day, Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

Give unto

Judges 21:1
And the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, Not one of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man to say rashly, A holy thing, and afterward vows to ask about it.