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 thee, though I be as I am, even Paul aged, and now in bonds for Jesus Christ's sake.

Each man

Judges 21:14
and Benjamin came again at that time, and they gave them the women which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead. But they so sufficed them not.
Genesis 1:27
And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 7:13
And the selfsame day went Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them in to the ark:
Mark 10:6
But at the first creation, God made them man and woman, saying,
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.

Give unto

Judges 21:1
And the men of Israel sware in Mizpeh saying, "There shall none of us give his daughter unto any of Benjamin to wife."
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare for a man to blaspheme that which is holy, and then to go about with vows.