Judges 21:11

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This is what you are to do: Completely destroy every male and every woman who has had relations with a man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man. 18 But you may keep alive for yourselves all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city, including the men, women, and children; we left no survivors.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 21:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

    9When the people were counted, it was discovered that none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead were there.

    10So the assembly sent twelve thousand armed men with the command, 'Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the sword, including the women and children.'

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17Now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

    18But you may keep alive for yourselves all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him.

  • Judg 21:12
    82%

    12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women who were virgins and had not been intimate with a man. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 6:21
    81%

    21They devoted to destruction everything in the city—men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep, and donkeys—by the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    79%

    13When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword.

    14However, you may take the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city as your spoils. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

    15This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not part of the cities of these nations.

    16But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

    17Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    3Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'

  • Deut 3:6
    77%

    6We completely destroyed them, just as we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon. In every city, we destroyed the men, women, and children.

  • Deut 13:15
    77%

    15then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report is true and confirmed that such a detestable act has been done among you,

  • Deut 2:34
    76%

    34At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city, including the men, women, and children; we left no survivors.

  • Ezek 9:6
    76%

    6Old men, young men, virgins, children, and women—kill them all to the point of destruction. But do not go near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

  • Num 31:7
    75%

    7They waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

  • Judg 21:16
    74%

    16The elders of the assembly said, 'What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?'

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21then they shall bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones. She has committed a disgraceful act in Israel by being promiscuous while in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

    22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman who were together must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11They struck down everyone in the city with the sword, completely destroying them. Not a single living thing was left, and Joshua burned Hazor with fire.

    12Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and their kings as well. He struck them down with the sword and completely destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9The Israelites captured the women of Midian and their children, and they took all their livestock, all their goods, and all their wealth as plunder.

    10They burned all the towns where the Midianites had lived and all their encampments with fire.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2Then Israel made a vow to the LORD, saying, 'If You indeed deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities.'

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives,

    11if you see among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

  • Judg 20:21
    72%

    21The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Do not make a covenant with them or show them any mercy.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses said to them, 'Have you spared all the women?'

  • Josh 11:14
    72%

    14The Israelites took all the plunder and livestock of these cities for themselves, but they killed all the people with the sword, completely destroying them and leaving no survivors.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21At that time Joshua came and destroyed the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, all the hill country of Judah, and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them and their cities to destruction.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    72%

    8He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but he utterly destroyed all the people with the sword.

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

    15When David was in Edom and Joab, the commander of the army, went up to bury the dead, they killed every male in Edom.

    16Joab and all Israel remained there for six months until every male in Edom had been destroyed.

  • Judg 21:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21'Watch, and when the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dances, rush out from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife for yourself from the daughters of Shiloh. Then return to the land of Benjamin.'

    22'When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, "Do us a favor by allowing them to have these wives, for we did not obtain wives for them during the battle. And you did not give your daughters to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath."'

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    71%

    39They captured it, its king, and all its villages. They struck them with the edge of the sword and completely destroyed everyone in it, leaving no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had done to Hebron, to Libnah, and its king.

    40So Joshua conquered the whole country—the hill country, the Negev, the lowland, and the slopes—along with all their kings. He left no survivors but devoted every living thing to destruction, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

  • Josh 10:37
    71%

    37They captured it and struck it down with the edge of the sword, including its king, its villages, and every person in it. He left no survivors, just as he had done to Eglon. He utterly destroyed the city and everyone in it.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, killing its men and women, children and infants, and also its oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

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

  • Josh 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25On that day, twelve thousand men and women, all the people of Ai, fell.

    26Joshua did not draw back the hand with which he had stretched out the javelin until he had completely destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Exod 32:27
    71%

    27Then he said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man put his sword on his side. Go back and forth through the camp, from gate to gate, and kill your brother, your friend, and your neighbor.'"

  • Num 31:35
    71%

    35and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

  • Deut 2:16
    70%

    16When all the fighting men among the people had died and were gone,