Judges 21:11

American Standard Version (1901)

And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

    9For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

    10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

    18But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Judg 21:12
    82%

    12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 6:21
    81%

    21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    79%

    13and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

    15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;

    17but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • Deut 3:6
    77%

    6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Deut 13:15
    77%

    15thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 2:34
    76%

    34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

  • Ezek 9:6
    76%

    6slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

  • Num 31:7
    75%

    7And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they slew every male.

  • Judg 21:16
    74%

    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?

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

    22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

    12And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

    10And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

    11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

  • Judg 20:21
    72%

    21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    72%

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom

    16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king thereof.

    40So Joshua smote all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, commanded.

  • Josh 10:37
    71%

    37and they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were therein.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

    4And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.

  • Josh 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

    26For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27And he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

  • Num 31:35
    71%

    35and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with him.

  • Deut 2:16
    70%

    16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,