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Daughters of Shiloh Dance With Timbrels in the Vineyards
by emmanuel_higgins
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Judges 21:20
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Now the men
of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
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;
3
And said, O
L
ORD
God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
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.
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
L
ORD
? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the
L
ORD
to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
7
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the
L
ORD
that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
8
And they said, What one
is there
of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the
L
ORD
? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
9
For the people were numbered, and, behold,
there were
none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
10
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
11
And this
is
the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
12
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 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.
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.
14
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
15
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
L
ORD
had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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?
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.
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.
19
Then they said, Behold,
there is
a feast of the
L
ORD
in Shiloh yearly
in a place
which
is
on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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