Judges 21:11
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
Note Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Note hath lain…: Heb. knoweth the lying with man
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- every male
- Numbers 31:17, 18; Deuteronomy 2:34