Then shall the maid rejoice in the dance, yea both young and old folks. For I will turn their sorrow into gladness, and will comfort them and make them joyful, even from their hearts. Verse Concepts

Zechariah 9:17

O how prosperous and goodly a thing shall that be: The corn shall make the young men cheerful, and the new wine the maidens. Verse Concepts

Judges 11:34

Then Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house. And see, his daughter came out against him, with timbrels and dances, which was his only child: so that beside her he had neither son nor daughter. Verse Concepts

Judges 21:21

And when ye see that the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in a row, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and get you unto the land of Benjamin." Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Often treated with great cruelty in war

Lamentations 2:21

{Shin} Young and old lie behind the streets, upon the ground; my maidens and young men are slain with the sword: whom thou in the day of thy wrathful indignation hast put to death. Yea, even thou hast put them to death, and not spared them. Verse Concepts

Lamentations 5:11

The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Without forth, the sword shall rob them of their children; and within in the chamber, fear: both young men and young women, and the sucklings with the men of gray heads. Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Could not marry without consent of parents

Exodus 22:17

If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. Verse Concepts

Genesis 24:3

that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell. Verse Concepts

Genesis 34:6

Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob, to commune with him. Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Not to be given in marriage considered a calamity

Isaiah 4:1

Then shall seven wives take hold of one man, and say, "We will lay all our meat and clothing together in common, only that we may be called thy wives, and that this shameful reproof may be taken from us." Verse Concepts

Judges 11:37

And she said unto her father, "Do this much for me: let me alone two months that I may go down to the mountains and bewail my virginity with my fellows." Verse Concepts

Psalm 78:63

The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage. Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Often » Taken captive

Lamentations 1:18

{Tsadi} The LORD is righteous, for I provoked his countenance unto anger. O take heed all ye people, and consider my heaviness: My maidens and my young men are led away in to captivity. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 30:17-18

The best men of On and Bubaste shall be slain with the sword, and carried away captive. At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the scepter of the land of Egypt, and when the pomp of her power shall have an end. A cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led away into captivity.

Woman » Young » Called » Virgins

Genesis 24:16

The damsel was very fair to look upon, and yet a maid and unknown of man. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up again. Verse Concepts

Lamentations 1:4

{Daleth} The streets of Zion mourn, because no man cometh to the solemn feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests make lamentation; her maidens are careful; and she herself is in great heaviness. Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Of distinction, dressed in robes of various colors

Psalm 45:14

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. Verse Concepts

2 Samuel 13:18

And she had a kirtle of divers colors upon her: for with such were the king's daughters that were virgins appareled; made strait unto them. Then his servant brought her out at the doors and locked the doors after her. Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Called » Damsels

Mark 5:39

And he went in and said unto them, "Why make ye this ado and weep? The maiden is not dead, but sleepeth." Verse Concepts

Genesis 24:55

But her brother and her mother said, "Let the damsel abide with us a while, and it be but even ten days, and then go thy ways." Verse Concepts

Woman » Young » Called » Maids

Exodus 2:8

And the maid ran and called the child's mother. Verse Concepts

Luke 8:51-52

And when he came to the house, he suffered no man to go in with him, save Peter, James and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. Everybody wept and sorrowed for her. And he said, "Weep not: for she is not dead, but sleepeth."

Woman » Young » Punishment for seducing, when betrothed

Deuteronomy 22:23-27

If a maid be handfasted unto a husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay with her, then ye shall bring them both out unto the gates of that same city and shall stone them with stones to death: The damsel because she cried not, being in the city, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou shalt put away evil from thee. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her: Then the man that lay with her shall die alone, read more.
and unto the damsel thou shalt do no harm, because there is in the damsel no cause of death. For as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him, even so is this matter. For he found her in the fields and the betrothed damsel cried: but there was no man to help her.

Woman » Young » Punishment for seducing when not betrothed

Exodus 22:16-17

"If a man beguile a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall endote her and take her to his wife: If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.