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Judges 21 World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)

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WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
1 Y LOS varones de Israel habían jurado en Mizpa, diciendo: Ninguno de nosotros dará su hija á los de Benjamín por mujer.
2 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
2 Y vino el pueblo á la casa de Dios, y estuviéronse allí hasta la tarde delante de Dios; y alzando su voz hicieron gran llanto, y dijeron:
3 They said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”
3 Oh Jehová Dios de Israel, ¿por qué ha sucedido esto en Israel, que falte hoy de Israel una tribu?
4 On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
4 Y al día siguiente el pueblo se levantó de mañana, y edificaron allí altar, y ofrecieron holocaustos y pacíficos.
5 The children of Israel said, “Who is there amongst all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
5 Y dijeron los hijos de Israel: ¿Quién de todas las tribus de Israel no subió á la reunión cerca de Jehová? Porque se había hecho gran juramento contra el que no subiese á Jehová en Mizpa, diciendo: Sufrirá muerte.
6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
6 Y los hijos de Israel se arrepintieron á causa de Benjamín su hermano, y dijeron: Una tribu es hoy cortada de Israel.
7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
7 ¿Qué haremos en cuanto á mujeres para los que han quedado? Nosotros hemos jurado por Jehová que no les hemos de dar nuestras hijas por mujeres.
8 They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
8 Y dijeron: ¿Hay alguno de las tribus de Israel que no haya subido á Jehová en Mizpa? Y hallaron que ninguno de Jabes-galaad había venido al campo á la reunión:
9 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
9 Porque el pueblo fué contado, y no hubo allí varón de los moradores de Jabes-galaad.
10 The 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.
10 Entonces la congregación envió allá doce mil hombres de los más valientes, y mandáronles, diciendo: Id y poned á cuchillo á los moradores de Jabes-galaad, y las mujeres y niños.
11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
11 Mas haréis de esta manera: mataréis á todo varón, y á toda mujer que hubiere conocido ayuntamiento de varón.
12 They found amongst the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
12 Y hallaron de los moradores de Jabes-galaad cuatrocientas doncellas que no habían conocido hombre en ayuntamiento de varón, y trajéronlas al campo en Silo, que es en la tierra de Canaán.
13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
13 Toda la congregación envió luego á hablar á los hijos de Benjamín que estaban en la peña de Rimmón, y llamáronlos en paz.
14 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
14 Y volvieron entonces los de Benjamín; y diéronles por mujeres las que habían guardado vivas de las mujeres de Jabes-galaad: mas no les bastaron éstas.
15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
15 Y el pueblo tuvo dolor á causa de Benjamín, de que Jehová hubiese hecho mella en las tribus de Israel.
16 Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
16 Entonces los ancianos de la congregación dijeron: ¿Qué haremos acerca de mujeres para los que han quedado? Porque el sexo de las mujeres había sido raído de Benjamín.
17 They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
17 Y dijeron: La heredad de los que han escapado [ha de ser] lo que era de Benjamín, porque no sea una tribu raída de Israel.
18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”
18 Nosotros empero, no les podemos dar mujeres de nuestras hijas, porque los hijos de Israel han jurado, diciendo: Maldito el que diere mujer á Benjamín.
19 They said, “Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
19 Ahora bien, dijeron, he aquí cada un año hay solemnidad de Jehová en Silo, que está al aquilón de Beth-el, y al lado oriental del camino que sube de Beth-el á Sichêm, y al mediodía de Lebona.
20 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
20 Y mandaron á los hijos de Benjamín, diciendo: Id, y poned emboscada en las viñas:
21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
21 Y estad atentos: y cuando viereis salir las hijas de Silo á bailar en corros, vosotros saldréis de las viñas, y arrebataréis cada uno mujer para sí de las hijas de Silo, y os iréis á tierra de Benjamín:
22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
22 Y cuando vinieren los padres de ellas ó sus hermanos á demandárnoslo, nosotros les diremos: Tened piedad de nosotros en lugar de ellos: pues que nosotros en la guerra no tomamos mujeres para todos: que vosotros no se las habéis dado, para que ahora seáis culpables.
23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
23 Y los hijos de Benjamín lo hicieron así; pues tomaron mujeres conforme á su número, pillando de las que danzaban; y yéndose luego, tornáronse á su heredad, y reedificaron las ciudades, y habitaron en ellas.
24 The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
24 Entonces los hijos de Israel se fueron también de allí, cada uno á su tribu y á su familia, saliendo de allí cada uno á su heredad.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
25 En estos días no había rey en Israel: cada uno hacía lo recto delante de sus ojos.
Cross references (21)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Judges 20:1; Acts 23:12; Judges 21:18; Mark 6:23; Ecclesiastes 5:2
  2. 2 Judges 20:26; Judges 20:18; 1 Samuel 30:4; Judges 20:23; Joshua 18:1
  3. 3 Psalm 80:12; Jeremiah 12:1; Joshua 7:7–9; Psalm 74:1; Deuteronomy 29:24
  4. 4 2 Samuel 24:25; Judges 6:26; Hosea 5:15; Exodus 20:24–25; 2 Samuel 24:18
  5. 5 Judges 5:23; Jeremiah 48:10; Leviticus 27:28–29; Judges 21:18; Judges 21:1
  6. 6 Judges 21:15; Judges 20:23; 2 Samuel 2:26; Judges 11:35; Hosea 11:8
  7. 7 Judges 21:1; Judges 21:18; 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Samuel 14:28–29
  8. 8 1 Samuel 31:11–13; 1 Samuel 11:1–3; 2 Samuel 2:5–6
  9. 10 1 Samuel 11:7; Judges 21:5; Judges 5:23; Joshua 7:24; Deuteronomy 13:15
  10. 11 Numbers 31:17–18; Deuteronomy 2:34
  11. 12 Joshua 18:1; Psalm 78:60; Jeremiah 7:12; Judges 20:18; Judges 20:23
  12. 13 Deuteronomy 20:10; Judges 20:47; Ephesians 2:17; Luke 10:5; Joshua 15:32
  13. 14 1 Corinthians 7:2; Judges 20:47; Judges 21:12
  14. 15 Judges 21:6; 1 Chronicles 15:13; 1 Chronicles 13:11; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 58:12
  15. 17 Numbers 26:55; Numbers 36:7
  16. 18 Judges 21:1; Judges 11:35
  17. 19 Psalm 81:3; Exodus 23:14–16; Deuteronomy 16:1; Judges 18:31; John 5:1
  18. 21 Judges 11:34; Exodus 15:20; Jeremiah 31:13; Psalm 150:4; Luke 17:25
  19. 22 Judges 21:1; Judges 21:18; Mark 10:6–8; Proverbs 20:25; Judges 21:7
  20. 23 Judges 20:48
  21. 25 Deuteronomy 12:8; Proverbs 3:5; Judges 17:6; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Proverbs 14:12

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