Bible Cross References
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Genesis 42:32
We were twelve brothers in all, sons of the same father. One brother is dead, and the youngest is still in Canaan with our father.'
Judges 20:35
The LORD gave Israel victory over the army of Benjamin. The Israelites killed 25,100 of the enemy that day,
Judges 21:6-25
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The people of Israel felt sorry for their brothers the Benjaminites and said, "Today Israel has lost one of its tribes.
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What shall we do to provide wives for the men of Benjamin who are left? We have made a solemn promise to the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters."
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When they asked if there was some group out of the tribes of Israel that had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there;
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at the roll call of the army no one from Jabesh had responded.
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So the assembly sent twelve thousand of their bravest men with the orders, "Go and kill everyone in Jabesh, including women and children.
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Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin."
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They found four hundred young virgins among the people in Jabesh, so they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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Then the whole assembly sent word to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock and offered to end the war.
14
The Benjaminites came back, and the other Israelites gave them the young women from Jabesh whom they had not killed. But there were not enough of them.
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The people felt sorry for the Benjaminites because the LORD had broken the unity of the tribes of Israel.
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So the leaders of the gathering said, "There are no more women in the tribe of Benjamin. What shall we do to provide wives for the men who are left?
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Israel must not lose one of its twelve tribes. We must find a way for the tribe of Benjamin to survive,
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but we cannot allow them to marry our daughters, because we have put a curse on anyone who allows a Benjaminite to marry one of our daughters."
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Then they thought, "The yearly festival of the LORD at Shiloh is coming soon." (Shiloh is north of Bethel, south of Lebonah, and east of the road between Bethel and Shechem.)
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They told the Benjaminites, "Go and hide in the vineyards
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and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to dance during the festival, you come out of the vineyards. Each of you take a wife by force from among them and take her back to the territory of Benjamin with you.
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If their fathers or brothers come to you and protest, you can tell them, 'Please let us keep them, because we did not take them from you in battle to be our wives. And since you did not give them to us, you are not guilty of breaking your promise.' "
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The Benjaminites did this; each of them chose a wife from the young women who were dancing at Shiloh and carried her away. Then they went back to their own territory, rebuilt their towns, and lived there.
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At the same time the rest of the Israelites left, and every man went back to his own tribe and family and to his own property.
25
There was no king in Israel at that time. Everyone did whatever they pleased.
1 Samuel 9:21
Saul answered, "I belong to the tribe of Benjamin, the smallest tribe in Israel, and my family is the least important one in the tribe. Why, then, do you talk like this to me?"
1 Chronicles 12:16
Once a group of men from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah went out to the fort where David was.
1 Chronicles 12:29
(SEE 12:23)
1 Chronicles 15:3
So David summoned all the people of Israel to Jerusalem in order to bring the Covenant Box to the place he had prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 27:12
(SEE 27:2)
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Psalm 47:9
The rulers of the nations assemble with the people of the God of Abraham. More powerful than all armies is he; he rules supreme.
Psalm 60:7
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh too; Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my royal scepter.
Isaiah 11:13
The kingdom of Israel will not be jealous of Judah any more, and Judah will not be the enemy of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:19-27
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tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am going to take the stick representing Israel and put it with the one that represents Judah. Out of the two I will make one stick and hold it in my hand.
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"Hold in your hand the two sticks and let the people see them.
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Then tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am going to take all my people out of the nations where they have gone, gather them together, and bring them back to their own land.
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I will unite them into one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. They will have one king to rule over them, and they will no longer be divided into two nations or split into two kingdoms.
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They will not defile themselves with disgusting idols any more or corrupt themselves with sin. I will free them from all the ways in which they sin and betray me. I will purify them; they will be my people, and I will be their God.
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A king like my servant David will be their king. They will all be united under one ruler and will obey my laws faithfully.
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They will live on the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They will live there forever, and so will their children and all their descendants. A king like my servant David will rule them forever.
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I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security forever. I will establish them and increase their population, and will see to it that my Temple stands forever in their land.
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I will live there with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.