KIDNAPPING

Passages on this topic · 6

• Exodus 21:16

  “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 24:7

  If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Judges 21:20

  They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

• Judges 21:21

  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.

• Judges 21:22

  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.’”

• Judges 21:23

  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.