Judges 19:8   (Read all of Judges 19)

On the morning of the fifth day, when he rose to go, the woman's father said, "Refresh yourself. Wait till afternoon!" So the two of them ate together.

Judges 19:9   (Read all of Judges 19)

Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman's father, said, "Now look, it's almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home."

Judges 19:17   (Read all of Judges 19)

When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?"

Judges 19:19   (Read all of Judges 19)

We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants-me, the woman and the young man with us. We don't need anything."

Judges 19:20   (Read all of Judges 19)

"You are welcome at my house," the old man said. "Let me supply whatever you need. Only don't spend the night in the square."

Judges 19:22   (Read all of Judges 19)

While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him."

Judges 19:24   (Read all of Judges 19)

Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don't do such an outrageous thing."

Judges 20:7   (Read all of Judges 20)

Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do."

Judges 20:12   (Read all of Judges 20)

The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What about this awful crime that was committed among you?

Judges 20:15   (Read all of Judges 20)

At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah.

Judges 20:28   (Read all of Judges 20)

with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, "Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?" The Lord responded, "Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands."

Judges 20:34   (Read all of Judges 20)

Then ten thousand of Israel's able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.

Judges 21:11   (Read all of Judges 21)

"This is what you are to do," they said. "Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin."

Judges 21:12   (Read all of Judges 21)

They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.

Judges 21:21   (Read all of Judges 21)

and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.

Judges 21:22   (Read all of Judges 21)

When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.' "

Judges 21:23   (Read all of Judges 21)

So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.

Ruth 1:8   (Read all of Ruth 1)

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me.

Ruth 1:9   (Read all of Ruth 1)

May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

Ruth 1:10   (Read all of Ruth 1)

and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."

Ruth 1:11   (Read all of Ruth 1)

But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?

Ruth 1:13   (Read all of Ruth 1)

would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord's hand has turned against me!"

Ruth 1:15   (Read all of Ruth 1)

"Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her."

Ruth 1:16   (Read all of Ruth 1)

But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.