Hello, and welcome
back to HIS WORDS ARE LIFE
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're
reading in the book of Judges,
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but before we start
reading, Let's pray together.
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Dear God, thank you for
this time to come and to be
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in your presence through
your holy word. We thank you
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that this word has for us
all that we need to be fit
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for your service and fit to
be lights for you in this world.
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Please teach us now what
you would have us to learn.
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We love you so much. Amen.
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Reading in Judges in chapter
19 and we're going to start
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on verse 28, and this
is the King James Version.
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And he said unto her,
Up, and let us be going.
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But none answered. Then the
man took her up upon an ass,
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and the man rose up,
and gat him unto his place.
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And when he was come into
his house, he took a knife,
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and laid hold on his
concubine and divided her,
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together with her
bones, into twelve pieces,
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and sent her into
all the coasts of Israel.
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And it was so, that
all that saw it said,
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There was no such deed done
nor seen from the day that the
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children of Israel came up out
of the land of Egypt unto this
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day: consider of it, take
advice, and speak your minds.
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Continuing now in Judges,
chapter 20, King James Version.
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Then all the children of Israel
went out, and the congregation
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was gathered together as one
man, from Dan even to Beersheba,
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with the land of
Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.
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And the chief of all the people,
even of all the tribes of Israel
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presented themselves in the
assembly of the people of God,
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four hundred thousand
footmen that drew sword.
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Now the children of
Benjamin heard that the children
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of Israel were
gone up to Mizpeh.
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Then said the children of Israel
Tell us how was this wickedness?
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And the Levite, the husband
of the woman that was slain,
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answered and said, I came
into Gibeah that belongeth
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to Benjamin, I and my concubine,
to lodge. And the men of Gibeah
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rose against me, and beset
the house round about upon me
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by night, and thought to
have slain me: and my concubine
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have they forced, that she is
dead. And I took my concubine,
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and cut her in pieces,
and sent her throughout all
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the country of the inheritance
of Israel: for they have
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committed lewdness
and folly in Israel.
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Behold, ye are all children
of Israel; give here your advice
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and counsel. And all the
people arose as one man, saying,
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We will not any of go to his
tent, neither will we any of us
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turn into his house. But
now this shall be the thing
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which we will do to Gibeah;
we will go up by lot against it;
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And we will take ten men
of an hundred throughout all
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the tribes of Israel,
and an hundred of a thousand,
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and a thousand out of ten
thousand, to fetch victual
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for the people, that they may
do when they come to Gibeah of
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Benjamin, according to all
the folly that they have wrought
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in Israel. So all the men
of Israel were gathered against
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the city, knit together as one
man. And the tribes of Israel
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sent men through all the
tribe of Benjamin, saying,
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What wickedness is
this that is done among you?
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Now therefore deliver us
the men, the children of Belial,
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which are in Gibeah, that we may
put them to death, and put away
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evil from Israel. But
the children of Benjamin
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would not hearken to the voice
of their brethren, the children
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of Israel: But the children
of Benjamin gathered themselves
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together out of the cities
unto Gibeah, to go out to battle
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against the children of Israel.
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And the children of Benjamin
were numbered at that time
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out of the cities twenty and six
thousand men that drew sword,
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beside the inhabitants of
Gibeah which were numbered
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700 chosen men. Among
all this people there were
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700 chosen men, left-handed;
every one could sling stones
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at an hair breadth and not
miss. And the men of Israel,
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beside Benjamin, were numbered
400,000 men that drew sword:
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all these were men of war. And
the children of Israel arose,
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and went up to the house of
God, and asked counsel of God,
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and said, Which of us shall go
up first to the battle against
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the children of Benjamin? And
the Lord said, Judah shall go up
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first. And the children of
Israel rose up in the morning,
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and encamped against Gibeah.
And the men of Israel went out
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to battle against
Benjamin; and the men of Israel
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put themselves in array to
fight against them at Gibeah.
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And the children of Benjamin
came forth out of Gibeah, and
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destroyed down to the ground
of the Israelites that day
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twenty and two thousand men.
And the people the men of Israel
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encouraged themselves, and
set their battle again in array
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in the place where they put
themselves in array the 1st day.
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And the children of Israel
went up and wept before the Lord
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until even, and asked counsel of
the Lord, saying, Shall I go up
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again to battle against the
children of Benjamin my brother?
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And the Lord
said, Go up against him.
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And the children of Israel came
near against the children of
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Benjamin the second day.
And Benjamin went forth against
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them out of Gibeah the
second day, and destroyed down
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to the ground of the children
of Israel again 18,000 men;
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all these drew the sword.
Then all the children of Israel,
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and all the people, went up,
and came unto the house of God,
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and wept, and sat there before
the Lord, and fasted that day
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until even, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings
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before the Lord. And the
children of Israel inquired
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of the Lord, for the ark of
the covenant of God was there
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in those days, and Phinehas, the
son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron
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stood before it in those days,
saying, Shall I yet again go out
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to battle against the
children of Benjamin my brother,
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or shall I cease? And the
Lord said, Go up; for tomorrow
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I will deliver
them into thine hand.
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And Israel set liers in
wait round about Gibeah.
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And the children of Israel
went up against the children of
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Benjamin on the third day,
and put themselves in array
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against Gibeah,
as at other times.
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And the children of Benjamin
went out against the people
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and were drawn away from the
city; and they began to smite
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of the people, and kill, as
at other times, in the highways,
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of which one goeth up to
the house of God, and the other
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to Gibeah in the field, about 30
men of Israel. And the children
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of Benjamin said, They
are smitten down before us,
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as at the first. But
the children of Israel said,
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Let us flee and draw them
from the city unto the highways.
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And all the men of Israel
rose up out of their place,
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and put themselves in array
at Baaltamar: and the liers
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in wait of Israel came forth
out of their places, even out of
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the meadows of Gibeah.
And there came against Gibeah
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10,000 chosen men out of all
Israel, and the battle was sore:
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but they knew not
that evil was near them.
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And the Lord smote Benjamin
before Israel: and the children
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of Israel destroyed of
the Benjamites that day
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twenty and five
thousand and an hundred men:
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all these drew the sword. So the
children of Benjamin saw that
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they were smitten: for
the men of Israel gave place
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to the Benjamites, because they
trusted unto the liers in wait
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which they had set beside Gibeah
And the liers in wait hasted
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and rushed upon
Gibeah; and the liers in wait
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drew themselves
along, and smote all the city
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with the edge of the sword.
Now there was an appointed
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sign between the men of
Israel and the liers in wait,
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that they should make a
great flame with smoke rise up
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out of the city. And
when the men of Israel retired
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in the battle, Benjamin began
to smite and kill of the men
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of Israel about 30 persons:
for they said, Surely they are
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smitten down before
us, as in the first battle.
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But when the flame began
to arise up out of the city
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with a pillar of smoke,
the Benjamites looked behind
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them, and behold, the flame of
the city ascended up to heaven.
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And when the men of
Israel turned again,
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the men of Benjamin were amazed:
for they saw that evil was come
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upon them. Therefore
they turned their backs before
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the men of Israel unto the way
of the wilderness but the battle
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overtook them; and them
which came out of the cities
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they destroyed in the midst
of them. Thus they enclosed
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the Benjamites round about,
and chased them, and trode them
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down with ease over against
Gibeah toward the sunrising.
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And there fell of
Benjamin, eighteen thousand men;
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all these were men of
valour. And they turned and fled
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toward the wilderness
unto the rock of Rimmon:
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and they gleaned of them
in the highways 5,000 men;
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and pursued hard after them
unto Gidom, and slew 2,000 men
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of them. So that all which
fell that day of Benjamin were
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25,000 men that drew the sword;
all these were men of valour.
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But 600 men turned and fled
to the wilderness unto the rock
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Rimmon, and abode in
the rock Rimmon four months.
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And the men of Israel
turned again upon the children
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ob Benjamin, and smote
them with the edge of the sword,
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as well the men of every city,
as the beast, and all that came
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to hand: also they set on fire
all the cities that they came to
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Continuing in the book of Judges
chapter 21, King James Version.
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Now the men of Israel
had sworn in Mizpeh, saying,
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There shall not any of us
give his daughter unto Benjamin
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to wife. And the people came to
the house of God and abode there
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till even before God, and lifted
up their voices, and wept sore;
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And said, O Lord God of
Israel, why is this come to pass
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in Israel, that there should
be today one tribe lacking
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in Israel? And it came to pass
on the morrow, that the people
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rose early, and built there
an altar, and offered burnt
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offerings and peace offerings.
And the children of Israel said,
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Who is there among all the
tribes of Israel that came not
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up with the congregation unto
the Lord? For they had made a
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great oath concerning him
that came not up to the Lord
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to Mizpeh saying, He
shall surely be put death.
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and the children of Israel
repented them for Benjamin
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their brother, and said, There
is one tribe cut off from Israel
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this day. How shall we do
for wives for them that remain,
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seeing we have sworn by the
Lord that we will not give them
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of our daughters to wives?
And they said, What one is there
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of the tribes of Israel
that came not up to Mizpeh
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to the Lord? And, behold,
there came none to the camp from
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Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
For the people were numbered,
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and, behold, there were none of
the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead
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there. And the congregation
sent thither 12,000 men of
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the valiantest, and commanded
them saying, Go and smite the
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inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with
the edge of the sword, with the
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women and the children. And this
is the thing that ye shall do,
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Ye shall utterly destroy
every male, and every woman
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that hath lain by man. And
they found among the inhabitants
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of Jabeshgilead four hundred
young virgins, that had known
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no man by lying with any male:
and they brought them unto the
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camp to Shiloh, which
is in the land of Canaan.
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And the whole congregation sent
some to speak to the children
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of Benjamin that
were in the rock Rimmon,
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and to call peaceably unto
them. And Benjamin came again
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at that time; and they
gave them wives which they had
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saved alive of the women of
Jabeshgilead: and yet so they
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sufficed them not. And
the people repented them for
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Benjamin, because that the Lord
had made a breach in the tribes
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of Israel. Then the
elders of the congregation said,
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How shall we do for wives for
them that remain, seeing, the
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women are destroyed out
of Benjamin? And they said,
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There must be an inheritance for
them that be escaped of Benjamin
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that a tribe be not
destroyed out of Israel. Howbeit
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we may not give them wives of
our daughters: for the children
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of Israel have sworn, saying,
Cursed be he that giveth a wife
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to Benjamin. Then they
said, Behold, there is a feast
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of the Lord in Shiloh yearly
in a place which is on the north
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side of Bethel, on the east
side of the highway that goeth
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up from Bethel to Shechem,
and on the south of Lebonah.
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Therefore they commanded the
children of Benjamin, saying,
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Go and lie in wait in
the vineyards; And see,
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and, behold, if the daughters
of Shiloh come out to dance
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in dances, then come ye out
of the vineyards, and catch you
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every man his wife of
the daughters of Shiloh,
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And go to the land of Benjamin.
And it shall be, when their
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fathers or their brethren
come unto us to complain,
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that we will say unto
them, Be favourable unto them
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for our sakes: because we
reserved not to each man his
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wife in the war: for he did
not give unto them at this time,
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that ye should be guilty. And
the children of Benjamin did so
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and took them wives,
according to their number,
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of them that danced, whom
they caught: and they went
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and returned unto their
inheritance, and repaired
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the cities, and dwelt in
them. And the children of Israel
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departed thence at that time,
every man to his tribe and to
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his family, and they
went out from thence every man
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to his inheritance. In those
days there was no king in Israel
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every man did that which
was right in his own eyes.
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Thank you for being with me
today to read the word of God,
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and when we are together next
we will start on the beautiful
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story of Ruth. Until
then, goodbye and God bless.
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