Devine Scripture

Judges 21:15

Judges chapter 21 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Context

v.14And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

v.15This passage

v.16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:13

    For because ye bare it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

  • Judges 21:6

    And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

  • Isaiah 30:13

    therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

  • Isaiah 58:12

    And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

  • Judges 21:17

    And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

  • 1 Chronicles 13:11

    And David was displeased, because Jehovah had broken forth upon Uzza: and he called that place Perez-uzza, unto this day.