07:021:013 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.
07:021:014 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.
07:021:015 And the people repented them for Benjamin,
because that the
lord
had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
07:021:016 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?
07:021:017 And they said, There must be an inheritance
for them that be
escaped
of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of
Israel.
07:021:018 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.
07:021:019 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.
07:021:020 Therefore they commanded the children of
Benjamin, saying, Go
and
lie in wait in the vineyards;
07:021:021 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.
07:021:022 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.
07:021:023 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.
07:021:024 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.
07:021:025 In those days there was no king in Israel:
every man did that
which
was right in his own eyes.
Book 08 Ruth
08:001:001 Now it came to pass in the days when the
judges ruled, that
there
was a famine in the land. And a certain man of
Bethlehemjudah
went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and
his
wife, and his two sons.


