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Judges 21:9

World English Bible

For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

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Judges 21:9 in other translations

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

Judges 21:9 · American Standard Version

Judges 21:9 in context

  1. 7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
  2. 8They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
  3. 9For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
  4. 10The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
  5. 11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”