March
21: Judges 20-21
Just wow… The Israelites all join together to fight the
inhabitants of Gibeah after they were so evil in yesterday’s reading. Gibeah
was a town of the Benjamites, and they were invited to fight, too, but instead
they chose to fight against the Israelites. The rest of the tribes inquired of
God before going into the battle, but in the first two days of fighting they
lost more than 40,000 even though they vastly outnumbered the Benjamites.
Finally God gave them the battle on the third day. It got a bit confusing there
toward the end of the story because of duplication of information.
So were you as horrified as I was when the Israelites let
the remaining 200 Benjamites without wives kidnap women from a festival? I
can’t even imagine what those women went through.
The book ends with a fitting, “everyone did as he saw
fit.”
TOMORROW’S TEXT: Ruth
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