Numbers 31:18

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

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  • Deut 21:10-14 : 10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives, 11 if you see among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. 13 She shall remove the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 The Israelites took captive 200,000 people from their relatives—women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great amount of plunder and brought it to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them, "Because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hands. But you have slain them in a rage that has reached up to heaven. 10 And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female servants. They will take captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
  • Lev 25:44 : 44 Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 However, 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:17
    88%

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

  • Num 31:15
    80%

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

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    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.'

    11This is what you are to do: Completely destroy every male and every woman who has had relations with a man.

    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.

  • Num 31:19
    78%

    19You must remain outside the camp for seven days. Anyone who has killed someone or touched a dead body must purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, both you and your captives.

  • Num 31:35
    77%

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

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 20:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 9:6
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    73%

    2The Amalekites had taken the women and everyone in the city captive, from the youngest to the oldest. They had not killed anyone but had taken them away as prisoners and gone on their way.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

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

    35Only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we took as spoil for ourselves.

  • 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.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    73%

    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.'

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16"When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."

    17The midwives, however, feared God and did not obey the king of Egypt's command; they let the boys live.

    18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?"

  • Deut 3:19
    72%

    19'But your wives, children, and livestock—I know you have much livestock—may stay in the towns I have given you.'

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    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."'

  • Deut 22:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and forces her and lies with her, only the man who has done this shall die.

    26You shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like when a man rises against his neighbor and murders him.

    27For he found her in the field, and though the betrothed young woman cried out for help, there was no one to rescue her.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    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 29:11
    71%

    11You are entering into the covenant of the LORD your God and His oath, which the LORD your God is making with you today.

  • Judg 21:7
    71%

    7'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

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

  • Lev 19:20
    70%

    20If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be an inquiry, but they are not to be put to death because she had not been freed.

  • Num 31:2
    70%

    2Take vengeance on the Midianites for the people of Israel. Afterward, you will be gathered to your people.

  • Deut 28:55-56
    2 verses
    70%

    55He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities.

    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

  • Zech 12:14
    70%

    14All the remaining families, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, cutting off from Judah man, woman, child, and infant, leaving yourselves without any remnant?

  • Num 31:7
    69%

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

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives, taking everything in the houses as plunder.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    69%

    18They included the registration of all their dependents—their wives, their sons, and their daughters—throughout the entire congregation, as they sanctified themselves in faithfulness and holiness.

  • Deut 22:23
    69%

    23If there is a young woman who is a virgin betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • Josh 6:21
    69%

    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.

  • Num 31:27
    69%

    27'Divide the plunder between the warriors who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.'

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11David did not leave alive a man or woman to bring to Gath, for he thought, "They might inform against us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" This was his practice the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."

  • Exod 1:22
    69%

    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.

  • Josh 1:14
    69%

    14Your wives, your children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on the east side of the Jordan. But you, all your strong warriors, fully armed, must cross ahead of your brothers and help them.

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7If anyone is engaged to a woman but has not yet married her, let him go back to his house, lest he die in battle and another man marry her.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    69%

    9David attacked the land and did not leave alive a man or woman. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then he returned and went to Achish.