Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.(Judges 21:19)

Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;(Judges 21:20)

And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in 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.(Judges 21:21)

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.(Judges 21:23)

And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.(Judges 21:24)

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.(Judges 21:25)

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Judges 21:22 - Cross Reference

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. (Proverbs 20:25)

Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. (Philemon 1:9)

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. (Judges 21:1)

And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. (Judges 21:14)

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; (Genesis 7:13)

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (1 Corinthians 7:2)

Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. (Judges 21:18)

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? (Judges 21:7)

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. (Mark 10:6)