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Judges 21
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 (21:1-7)
The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen virgins
After the Israelites heard the Levite's story (about chopping up his dead concubine and
sending her body parts to each tribe of Israel) they vowed not to "give" their daughters to the Benjamites. So now they had a problem:
they just finished killing all the Benjamite women and children (Jg 20:48) so there were no women for the surviving Benjamite men to marry.
[There were 600 Benjamite men that survived the war with the Israelites. (Jg 20:47)]
(21:1) "The men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife."
(21:7) "How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD
that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"
(21:8-11) But they find a great solution. They check their records and find that no one from Jabeshgilead came to the rotting-concubine-
body-part meeting. So they go and kill everyone in Jabeshgilead except for the virgin women and give them to the 600 surviving Benjamites.
(21:8) "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up
to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from
Jabeshgilead."
(21:10) "And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest,
and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children."
(21:11) "Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man."
(21:12-14)
So the Israelites killed all the non-virgin women and children in Jabeshgilead, bringing back 400 virgin women to give to the
Benjamites. But they were still 200 short. Damn!
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(21:12) "They found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred
young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh."
(21:14) "And they gave them [the Benjamites] wives ... yet so they sufficed them not."
(21:16-23)
So they come up with another brilliant plan. Have the Benjamites hide in the bushes and then catch the daughters of Shiloh when they
come out to dance. So that's what they did and everyone lived happily ever after.
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(21:16) "Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for
them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"
(21:18) "We may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of
Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin"
(21:20) "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards."
(21:21) "If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances,
then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh."
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| 21:1
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of
us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
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| 21:2
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before
God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
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| 21:3
And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that
there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
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| 21:4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built
there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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| 21:5
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of
Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had
made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh,
saying, He shall surely be put to death.
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| 21:6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and
said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
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| 21:7
How shall we do for
wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will
not give them of our daughters to wives?
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| 21:8
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up
to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from
Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
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| 21:9
For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the
inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
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| 21:10
And the congregation
sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them,
saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the
sword, with the women and the children.
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| 21:11
And this is the thing
that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman
that hath lain by man.
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| 21:12
And they found among
the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had
known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp
to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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| 21:13
And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin
that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
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| 21:14
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive
of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
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| 21:15
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made
a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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| 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for
them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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| 21:17
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of
Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
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| 21:18
Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of
Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
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| 21:19
Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a
place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway
that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
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| 21:20
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the
vineyards;
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| 21:21
And see, and, behold,
if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of
the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh,
and go to the land of Benjamin.
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| 21:22
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to
complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes:
because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give
unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty. |
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| 21:23
And the children of
Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them
that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their
inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. |
(21:23) "And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught."
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| 21:24
And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his
tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his
inheritance. |
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| 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was
right in his own eyes. |
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