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Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities Volume 2; Genesis and Prophets - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...not appear, any more than the reason of the similar severity exercised in the recent war. Four hundred unmarried females were brought away captives from Jabesh, and betrothed to so many husbands of the remnant of Benjamin.f Two hundred Benjamites remained to be provided for; and, in their behalf, recourse was had to an equally, if not more extraordinary device. There was held at that time "a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly," at which "the daughters of Shiloh came out to dance in dances." To this place "the elders of the congregation" accordingly advised the Benjamites to repair, and, seizing each upon a devotee, to carry them to their homes; "and it shall be," said the elders, "when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, 'Be favorable unto them for our sakes; for ye did not give unto them at this Judges xxi. 1-3. This treatment of the women is not distinctly asserted in the account of the war, though the general expressions in xx. 48, as they stand in the original, would well bear that sense; but see xxi. 16. fxxi.4-15. time, that ye should be guilty.'" The scheme was carried into execution; and from these six hundred men it was, if we consider ourselves here to be dealing with authentic history, that the tribe of Benjamin, so powerful in the days of Saul and David, was restored. The book of Ruth, which contains only a domestic history, refers the events which it records to the period of the Judges,f and is by some commentators considered to be as much a part of the book called by that name, as the two compositions last remarked on, which treat of the emigration of the Danites, and of the Benjamite war. J A further reason, which makes it proper to speak of it...
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