Judges 21:23-25: Wives Stolen, Benjamin Rebuilt, Religious Confusion
Verse 23:[1] And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: ...
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Dr. Dilday
Jul 1, 20195 min read
Judges 21:22: Prefabricated Excuse for the Aggrieved Parents of Stolen Daughters
Verse 22:[1] And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 28, 20197 min read
Judges 21:20, 21: Plan to Seize the Dancing Girls of Shiloh
Verse 20:[1] Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards… Verse 21:[2] And see, and,...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 21, 20193 min read
Judges 21:19: The Dancing Girls of Shiloh
Verse 19:[1] Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly (Heb. from year to year[2]) in a place which is on the...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 19, 20194 min read
Judges 21:16-18: A Plan Forming for Supplying the Other Two Hundred Wives
Verse 16:[1] Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 16, 20194 min read
Judges 21:12-15: The Israelites Finagle Four Hundred Wives for the Benjamites
Verse 12:[1] And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins (Heb. young women virgins[2]), that had...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 13, 20193 min read
Judges 21:8-11: Orders to Destroy Jabesh-Gilead
Verse 8:[1] And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 11, 20192 min read
Judges 21:5-7: Israel's Attention ominously Turned toward Jabesh-Gilead
Verse 5:[1] And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Judges 21:2-4: Israel's Consultation with the Lord concerning the Entangling Vow
Verse 2:[1] And the people came (Judg. 20:18, 26) to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices,...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 9, 20193 min read
Judges 21:1: Israel's Problematic Vow
Verse 1:[1] Now (Judg. 20:1) the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 7, 20191 min read
Judges 21: Saving Benjamin, and the Obstacle of an Ill-Considered Vow
The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin, 1-7. The inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead, for not coming up to this battle, are all destroyed,...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 6, 20195 min read
Judges 20:47, 48: Slaughter, and the Benjamite Remnant
Verse 47:[1] (Judg. 21:13) But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 4, 20196 min read
Judges 20:42-46: The Third Battle at Gibeah: Benjamin's Defeat, Part 3
Verse 42:[1] Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 2, 20194 min read
Judges 20:38-41: The Third Battle at Gibeah: Benjamin's Defeat, Part 2
Verse 38:[1] Now there was an appointed sign (or, time[2]) between the men of Israel and (Heb. with[3]) the liers in wait, that they...
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Dr. Dilday
May 31, 20194 min read
Judges 20:35-37: The Third Battle at Gibeah: Benjamin's Defeat, Part 1
Verse 35:[1] And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five...
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Dr. Dilday
May 28, 20196 min read
Judges 20:31-34: The Third Battle at Gibeah: Springing the Trap
Verse 31:[1] And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the...
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Dr. Dilday
May 23, 20192 min read
Judges 20:29, 30: The Third Battle at Gibeah: Setting the Ambush
Verse 29:[1] And Israel (so Josh. 8:4) set liers in wait round about Gibeah. [And they set ambushes] The promise of God notwithstanding,...
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Dr. Dilday
May 21, 20193 min read
Judges 20:26-28: Israel's Earnest Inquiry into the Will of the Lord
Verse 26:[1] Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, (Judg. 20:18) went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and...
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Dr. Dilday
May 20, 20193 min read
Judges 20:22-25: The Second Battle at Gibeah
Verse 22:[1] And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put...
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Dr. Dilday
May 18, 20194 min read
Judges 20:19-21: The First Battle at Gibeah
Verse 19:[1] And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. Verse 20:[2] And the men of Israel went out...
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