◄ Judges 21:13 ►
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Good News Translation
Then the whole assembly sent word to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock and offered to end the war.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites met and sent messengers to the men of Benjamin at Rimmon Rock, telling them that the Israelites were willing to make peace with them.

New American Bible
Then the whole assembly sent word to the Benjaminites at the crag of Rimmon, offering them peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were in the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were in the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.

to speak [heb] and spake and called.

Judges 20:47 And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and they abode in the rock Remmon four months.

Joshua 15:32 Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities twenty-nine, and their villages.

call peaceably.

Deuteronomy 20:10 If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace.

Isaiah 57:19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

Luke 10:5 Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house.

Ephesians 2:17 And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off: and peace to them that were nigh.

Context
Wives for the Benjamites
…12And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan. 13And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were in the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.14And the children of Benjamin came at that time, and wives were given them of Jabes Galaad: but they found no others, whom they might give in like manner.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:10
If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace.

Judges 20:45
And when they that remained of Benjamin saw this, they fled into the wilderness, and made towards the rock that is called Remmon. In that flight also, as they were straggling, and going different ways; they slew of them five thousand men. And as they went farther, they still pursued them, and slew also other two thousand.

Judges 20:47
And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and they abode in the rock Remmon four months.

Judges 21:12
And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.

Judges 21:14
And the children of Benjamin came at that time, and wives were given them of Jabes Galaad: but they found no others, whom they might give in like manner.

Judges 21:12
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