Cross references

Judges 21:22

When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”

Judges 21:22 BSB

Judges 21:22 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Judges 21:1 (4 votes) and Judges 21:18 (4 votes). 3 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 1 to Philemon 1.

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Which verses does Judges 21:22 point to?

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  1. Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

  2. But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

  3. However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, …

  4. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  5. On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

  6. What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

  7. And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

  8. It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.

  9. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  10. I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well. I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains. …

Which verses point to Judges 21:22?

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