Hello, and welcome
to HIS WORDS ARE LIFE
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank
you for coming apart with me
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for these few minutes
here to read the word of God
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in the book of Judges, the
story of God's people Israel
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during the time when
the judges ruled over them.
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Before we start,
lets pray together.
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Dear God, thank you so much for
bringing us to this moment in
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time to hear your word. Please
send the Holy Spirit to take
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these words and inscribe
them on our hearts to bear fruit
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not just to hear, but that we
may do them and learn the lesson
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for your glory.
We love you so much
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and thank you
for loving us. Amen.
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We're reading in Judges,
starting now in chapter 17,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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And there was a man of mount
Ephraim. His name was Micah.
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And he said unto his mother,
The 1100 shekels of silver
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that were taken from
thee, about which thou cursedst,
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and spakest of also in mine ear,
behold, the silver is with me;
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I took it. And his mother said,
Blessed be thou of the Lord,
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my son. And when he had restored
the 1100 shekels of silver
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to his mother, his mother
said, I had wholly dedicated
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the silver unto the
Lord from my hand for my son,
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to make a graven image and
a molten image: now therefore
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I will restore it unto
thee. Yet he restored the money
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unto his mother; and his mother
took 200 shekels of silver
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and gave them to the founder,
who made thereof a graven image
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and a molten image: and
they were in the house of Micah.
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And the man Micah had an house
of gods, and made an ephod,
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and teraphim, and
consecrated one of his sons,
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who became his priest. In those
days there was no king in Israel
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but every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.
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And there was a young man out
of Bethlehem-judah of the family
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of Judah, who was a
Levite, and he sojourned there.
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And the man departed out of
the city from Bethlehem-judah
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to sojourn where
he could find a place:
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and he came to mount
Ephraim to the house of Micah,
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as he journeyed. And Micah
said unto him, Whence comest
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thou? And he said unto him, I
am a Levite of Bethlehem-judah.
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and I go to sojourn
where I may find a place.
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And Micah said unto him,
Dwell with me, and be unto me
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a father and a priest, and
I will give thee 10 shekels
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of silver by the year and a suit
of apparel, and thy victuals.
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So the Levite went in. And
the Levite was content to dwell
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with the man; and the
young man was unto him
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as one of his sons. And
Micah consecrated the Levite;
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and the young man
became his priest,
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and was in the house of
Micah. Then said Micah, Now know
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I that the Lord will do me
good, seeing I have a Levite
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to my priest.
Continuing in the book
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of Judges, chapter 18, and
this is the King James Version.
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In those days, there
was no king in Israel:
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and in those days the
tribe of the Danites sought the
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and inheritance to
dwell in; for unto that day
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all their inheritance
had not fallen unto them
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among the tribes of
Israel. And the children of Dan
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sent of their family, five men
from their coasts, men of valor,
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from Zorah, and from
Eshtaol, to spy out the land,
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and to search it; and
they said unto them, Go, search
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the land: who when
they came to Mount Ephraim,
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to the house of
Micah, they lodged there.
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When they were by the house
of Micah, they knew the voice
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of the young man, the Levite:
and they turned in thither,
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and said unto him, Who brought
thee hither? and what makest
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thou in this place?
and what hast thou here?
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And he said unto them, Thus
and thus dealeth Micah with me,
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and hath hired me,
and I am his priest.
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And they said unto him, Ask
counsel, we pray thee, of God,
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that we may know
whether our way which we go
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shall be prosperous. And
the priest said unto them,
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Go in peace: before the
Lord is your way wherein ye go.
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Then the five men departed, and
came to Laish and saw the people
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that were therein, how they
dwelt careless after the manner
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of the Zidonians, quiet
and secure; and there was no
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magistrate in the land,
that might put them to shame
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in anything; and they
were far from the Zidonians,
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and had no
business with any man.
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And they came unto their
brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol:
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and their brethren
said unto them, What say ye?
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And they said, Arise,
that we may go up against them:
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for we have seen the land,
and behold, it is very good:
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and are ye still?
be not slothful to go,
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and to enter to
possess the land. When ye go,
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ye shall come unto a people
secure, and to a large land.
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For God hath given it into your
hands; a place where there is
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no want of any thing
that is in the earth.
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And there went from thence
of the family of the Danites,
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out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol,
600 men appointed with weapons
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of war. And they went up,
and pitched in Kirjathjearim,
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in Judah: wherefore they
called that place Mahanehdan
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unto this day: behold,
it is behind Kirjathjearim.
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And they passed thence
unto mount Ephraim, and came
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unto the house of Micah. Then
answered the five men that went
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to spy out the country of Laish,
and said unto their brethren,
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Do ye know that there is
in these houses and ephod,
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and a teraphim, and a graven
image, and a molten image?
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now therefore
consider what ye have to do.
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And they turned thitherward,
and came to the house of
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the young man, the Levite, even
unto the house of Micah, and
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saluted him. And the 600
men appointed with their weapons
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of war, which were
of the children of Dan,
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stood by the entering of
the gate. And the five men
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that went to spy out the land
went up, and came in thither,
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and took the graven image:
and the ephod and the teraphim,
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and the molten image: and
the priest stood in the entering
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of the gate with the
600 men that were appointed
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with weapons of war. And
these went into Micah's house,
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and fetched the carved image,
the ephod, and the teraphim,
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and the molten image.
Then said the priest unto them,
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What do ye? And they
said unto him, Hold thy peace,
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lay thine hand upon
thy mouth, and go with us,
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and be to us a father and a
priest: is it better for thee to
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be a priest unto
the house of one man,
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or that thou be a priest unto
a tribe and a family in Israel?
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And the priest's heart was
glad, and he took the ephod,
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and the teraphim,
and the graven image,
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and went in the midst of
the people. So they turned
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and departed, and put the
little ones and the cattle
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and the carriage before them.
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And when they were a good
way from the house of Micah,
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the men that were in the
houses near to Micah's house
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were gathered together, and
overtook the children of Dan.
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And they cried unto
the children of Dan.
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And they turned their
faces, and said unto Micah,
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What ailest the, that thou
comest with such a company?
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And he said, Ye have
taken away my gods which I made,
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and the priest, and ye are
gone away: and what have I more?
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and what is this that ye
say unto me, What aileth thee?
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And the children of Dan
said unto him, Let not thy voice
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be heard among us, lest
angry fellows run upon thee, and
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thou lose thy life, with
the lives of thy household.
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And the children of Dan went
their way: and when Micah saw
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that they were too strong
for him, he turned and went back
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unto his house. And they took
the things which Micah had made,
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and the priest which he had, and
came unto Laish, unto a people
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that were at quiet and
secure: and they smote them
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with the edge of the sword,
and burnt the city with fire.
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And there was no deliverer,
because it was far from Zidon,
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And they had no
business with any man;
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And it was in the
valley that lieth by Bethrehob,
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And they built a
city, and dwelt therein.
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And they called the name of the
city Dan, after the name of Dan
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their father, who was born
unto Israel: howbeit the name
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of the city was Laish at the
first. And the children of Dan
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set up the graven image: and
Jonathan, the son of Gershom,
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the son of Manasseh, he and his
sons were priests to the tribe
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of Dan until the day of
the captivity of the land.
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And they set them up
Micah's graven image,
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which he made, all the time that
the house of God was in Shiloh.
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We're continuing in the
book of Judges, chapter 19
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and this is the
King James Version.
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And it came to pass in those
days, that there was no king
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in Israel, that there was
a certain Levite sojourning
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on the side of mount Ephraim,
who took to him a concubine
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out of Bethlehem-judah. And
his concubine played the whore
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against him and went away
from him unto her father's house
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to Bethlehem-judah, and
was there four whole months.
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And her husband arose, and went
after her, to speak friendly
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unto her and to bring
her again, having his servant
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with him, and a couple of
asses: and she brought him into
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her father's house: and when
the father of the damsel saw him
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he rejoiced to meet him. And
his father in law, the damsel's
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father, retained him; and
he abode with him three days:
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So they did eat and
drink, and lodged there.
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And it came to pass on
the 4th day, when they arose
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early in the morning,
that he rose up to depart:
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and the damsel's father
said unto his son in law,
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Comfort thine heart with a
morsel of bread, and afterward
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go your way. And they sat
down, and did eat and drink,
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both of them together: for the
damsel's father had said unto
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the man, Be content, I
pray thee, and tarry all night,
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and let thine heart be
merry. And when the man rose up
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to depart, his father
in law urged him: therefore
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he lodged there again. And
he arose early in the morning
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on the 5th day to depart:
and the damsel's father said,
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Comfort thine heart I pray thee,
and they tarried until afternoon
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and they did eat both of
them. And when the man rose up
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to depart, he, and his
concubine, and his servant,
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his father in law, the
damsel's father, said unto him,
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Behold, now the day draweth
toward evening, I pray you
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tarry all night: behold, the day
groweth to an end, lodge here,
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that thine heart may be merry;
and tomorrow get you early
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on your way, that thou mayest
go home. But the man would not
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tarry that night, but he rose
up and departed, and came over
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against Jebus,
which is Jerusalem;
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and there were with him two
asses saddled, his concubine
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also was with him. And
when they were by Jebus,
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the day was far spent; and the
servant said unto his master,
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Come, I pray thee, and
let us turn in into this city
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of the Jebusites, and
lodge in it. And his master said
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unto him, We will not turn
aside hither into the city of a
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stranger, that is not
of the children of Israel;
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we will pass over to Gibeah.
And he said unto his servant,
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Come, and let us draw
near to one of these places
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to lodge all night, in Gibeah,
or in Ramah. And they passed on
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and went their way; and
the sun went town upon them
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when they were by Gibeah,
which belongeth to Benjamin.
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And they turned aside thither,
to go in and to lodge in Gibeah:
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and when he went in, he sat him
down in a street of the city:
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for there was no man that took
them into his house for lodging.
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And, behold, there came
an old man from his work
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out of the field at even,
which was also of mount Ephraim;
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and he sojourned in
Gibeah: but the men of the place
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were Benjamites. And when
he had lifted up his eyes,
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he saw a wayfaring man
in the street of the city:
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and the old man
said, Whither goest thou?
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and whence comest thou? And
he said unto him, We are passing
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from Bethlehem-judah toward
the side of mount Ephraim:
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from thence am I: and I went
to Bethlehem-judah, but I am now
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going to the house of
the Lord; and there is no man
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that receiveth me to his
house. Yet there is both straw
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and provender for our asses;
and there is bread and wine also
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for me, and for thy
handmaid, and for the young man
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which is with thy servants:
there is no want of anything.
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And the old man said,
Peace be with thee; howsoever
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let all thy wants lie upon me;
only lodge not in the street.
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So he brought him into
his house and gave provender
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unto the asses: and they
washed their feet, and did eat
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and drink. Now as they
were making their hearts merry,
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behold the men of the
city, certain sons of Belial,
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beset the house round about,
and beat at the door, and spake
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to the master of the house,
the old man, saying, bring forth
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the man that came into thine
house that we may know him.
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And the man, the master of
the house, went out unto them,
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and said unto them, Nay,
my brethren, nay, I pray you,
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do not so wickedly; seeing that
this man is come into mine house
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do not this folly. Behold
here is my daughter a maiden,
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and his concubine;
them I will bring out now,
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and humble ye them, and do
with them what seemeth good
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unto you: but unto this
man do not so vile a thing.
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But the men would not hearken
to him: so the man took his
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concubine, and brought her forth
unto them; and they knew her,
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and abused her all the
night until the morning:
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and when the day began
to spring they let her go.
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Then came the woman in
the dawning of the day,
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and fell down at the door of the
man's house where her lord was,
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till it was light. And the
lord rose up in the morning,
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and opened the doors
of the house, and went out
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to go his way: and, behold the
woman his concubine was fallen
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down at the door of the
house, and her hands were
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upon the threshhold.
Thank you for joining with me
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today to read in Judges.
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to hear the
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