Judges 21:11 meaning and explanation
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
Judges 21:11, Berean Standard Bible
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These are the orders Israel's assembly gave to twelve thousand soldiers sent against Jabesh-gilead, a town that had failed to join the oath at Mizpah. The Hebrew verb haram means to devote to destruction, placing the town under a ban given to God, as in earlier holy war passages.
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