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	Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
		The total rout they gave the Benjamites in the third engagement, by a stratagem, by which they were all cut off, except 600 men, ver.
		But between the Benjamites that attacked them in the front with incredible fury, and the men of Gibeah that sallied out upon their rear, they were put into confusion and lost 22,000 men, v.
		34), the Benjamites fought with fury; but, when they saw what a snare they were drawn into, they thought one pair of heels (as we say) was worth two pair of hands, and they made the best of their way towards the wilderness (v.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/henry/mhc2.vii.xxi.html?bcb=0 (5572 words)

	Benjamin (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		His mother died in giving him birth, and with her last breath named him Ben-oni, son of my pain, a name which was changed by his father into Benjamin.
		The first king of the Jews was Saul, a Benjamite.
		A close Alliance was formed between this tribe and that of Judah in the time of David (2 Sam.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/benjamin.html (297 words)

	Mary Magdalene - Chapter 1
		The result is a bitter and bloody war between the Benjamites and the remaining eleven tribes.
		When the women of the town congregate to dance in the festival, the Benjamites are to catch a wife for himself from the daughters of Shiloh.
		Whatever recovery the Benjamites may have made, however, the war over the followers of Belial was a crucial turning point.
	shekinah.elysiumgates.com /magdalene01.html (776 words)

	Micah's household shrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Fourth, the war against the Benjamites was so devastating to Benjamin that it was feared the tribe would vanish in Israel (21:1-3).
		Only 600 Benjamite men are said to have survived (20:47), all the other Benjamites—men and women—being put to death (20:48) so that these 600 men could find no Benjamite wives.
		Yet at the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam, the Benjamites were considered a full tribe (although the smallest, see 1Samuel 9:21) and contributed in some significant way to the fighting force of 180,000 men at Rehoboam's command.
	www.ucgstp.org /bible/brp/jud17.htm (1307 words)

	Forbidden Fruit Publishing
		Unfortunately there was not enough wives for all the Benjamites, and the Israelites were committed to the oath they made before the Lor d of not letting any of their daughters marry into the tribe of Benjamin.
		In light of this and likely fearing more homosexual sins by the surviving Benjamites if they were left for long without female companions, the Israelites agreed to let the tribe of Benjamin commit a raid for wives during a festival of the Lord at Shiloh.
		After the successful raid, the Benjamites carried off t heir captive wives and rebuilt their town at Gibeah, and all was forgiven.
	www.forbiddenfruitpublishing.com /sexdrugs/depraved.html (746 words)

	How, After The Death Of Joshua Their Commander, The Israelites Transgressed The Laws Of Their Country, And Experienced ...
		On the next day, when they fought again, the Benjamites beat them; and eighteen thousand of the Israelites were slain, and the rest deserted their camp out of fear of a greater slaughter.
		However, they afterward were sorry for the calamity they had brought upon the Benjamites, and appointed a fast on that account, although they supposed those men had suffered justly for their offense against the laws; so they recalled by their ambassadors those six hundred which had escaped.
		And thus was this tribe of the Benjamites, after they had been in danger of entirely perishing, saved in the manner forementioned, by the wisdom of the Israelites; and accordingly it presently flourished, and soon increased to be a multitude, and came to enjoy all other degrees of happiness.
	www.interhack.net /projects/library/antiquities-jews/b5c2.html (1043 words)

	Love The Lord Judges Lesson 22
		When the Benjamites were far enough from the city, the liers in wait got up behind them.
		Judges 20:35 "And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword." It appears, that 25,100 of the fighters for the tribe of Benjamin died this day in their battle against Israel.
		Judges 20:36 "So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah." It seemed that, the great army of the Israelites allowed this remnant to move away from the battle.
	www.lovethelord.com /books/judges/22.html (2299 words)

	The Twelfth Tribe of Israel
		The Levite demanded vengeance for the atrocity, and at a council of the twelve tribes, the Benjamites were instructed to deliver the malefactors to justice.
		The Benjamites were instructed to go to Shiloh, wait in ambush in the vineyards, and when the women congregated to dance in the festival, the Benjamites were to pounce upon them and take them to wife.
		In this way, the Benjamites would be allowed to recover from the devastation of the war.
	www.halexandria.org /dward215.htm (737 words)

	SHB - Journeys to the Twilight Zone
		They couldn't give their own daughters to the Benjamite survivors, because they had sworn with an oath at Mizpah before the massacre that "[n]one of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife" (21:1,7), and neither could the Benjamite survivors violate Yahweh's holy law and marry foreign women (Dt.
		The elders would say to the complainers, "Be kind to them [the Benjamites] for our sakes, because we did not take a wife for any of them in the war; for it is not as though you have given the women to them at this time, making yourselves guilty of your oath" (v:22).
		So the Benjamites did as instructed, abducted enough "daughters of Shiloh" for everyone to have a wife, and then returned to their tribal homeland (v:23).
	www.secularhumanism.org /library/shb/till_11_4.html (1081 words)

	Bible Study - Benjamin
		After the incident at Gibeah (Judges 19:1-30), the Benjamites were nearly wiped out in a civil war against the other tribes (Judges chapters 20 and 21).
		The Benjamites became closely allied with Judah in the time of King David (2 Samuel 19:16-17), which continued with Solomon (1 Kings 11:13).
		When the Israelites split into two kingdoms at the start of the reign of Solomon's son Rehoboam, the tribe of Benjamin was the only one to remain with Judah (1 Kings 12:21).
	www.keyway.ca /htm2000/20000830.htm (431 words)

	Love The Lord Judges Lesson 23
		There was such a destruction of the Benjamites, that their tribe might die out altogether.
		They would give their daughters to the Benjamites, were it not for the oath they took.
		The Benjamites could kidnap them, and the father would not be held accountable.
	www.lovethelord.com /books/judges/23.html (1554 words)

	The Lost Tribe of Benjamin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Tribe of Benjamin came into conflict with the other eleven Tribes because the Benjamites were apparently allied with the 'Sons of Belial' and would not attempt to impose Israelite laws and customs upon them.
		The result was that most of the Benjamites left Palestine, or were expelled by the victorious eleven Tribes.
		The 'Sons of Belial' with whom the Benjamites were allied, or against whom they refused to go to war...were none other than the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon..."
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/scripts/belial.html (435 words)

	Judges 20 TNIV :: IBS.org
		At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah.
		The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city.
		Then the Israelites turned on them, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.
	ibs.org /niv/print_passagesearch.php?passage_request=judges20&tniv=yes (1170 words)

	Plant Web Site - Benjamites
		At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred chosen men from those living in Gibeah.
		The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty), and they said, "We are defeating them as in the first battle." But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky.
		So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared.
	www.plant-fhg.org.uk /benjams.html (2830 words)

	Online Bible - resurrected : Daily Readings NIV
		While the Benjamites were saying, We are defeating them as before, the Israelites were saying, Let's retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.
		The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty), and they said, We are defeating them as in the first battle.
		At once the Benjamites mobilised twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred chosen men from those living in Gibeah.
	www.resurrected.co.uk /dailyreadingNIV.asp?date=15/05/2006 (2763 words)

	Judges 20:43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and
		They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.
		They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trod them down at their resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
		Judges 20:43 JPS: They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and overtook them at their resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
	bible.cc /judges/20-43.htm (267 words)

	BENYAMIN
		These Benjamites, like King Saul, are found mostly in leadership positions of the modern State of Israel.
		Most Benjamites are found in the House of Judah.
		The neck between the shoulders is a reference to the key role Benjamin is promised to play in the land of Israel's political leadership, and latter day military prowess, despite his mostly unregenerate offspring.
	www.uonyc.org /page.php?page=tribal_traits/benyamin (168 words)

	The Crime of the Benjamites
		Especially the Benjamites distinguished themselves for their zeal in paying homage to his idols.
		It was not long before the Benjamites committed the outrage of Gibeah.
		The Lord had wanted to punished them for having permitted Micah and his mother Delilah to pursue their evil ways undisturbed, though they were zealous beyond measure in avenging the wrong done to the woman at Gibeah.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/LegJew4/00000027.htm (1227 words)

	SAB, Judges 20
		The Benjamites had 700 left-handed men who could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
		Another 25,000 Benjamites are killed by the God-assisted Israelites.
		The Israelites finish their massacre of the Benjamites by killing all the men, animals, and everything they could find in every Benjamite city.
	skepticsannotatedbible.com /jg/20.html (1571 words)

	Wives for the Benjamites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The slaughter of all the Benjamites except the 600 men holed up in Rimmon only worsened the situation—now an Israelite tribe was about to become extinct.
		With the slaughter of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, 400 virgins were procured.
		And so the Benjamite men were allowed to raid a group of women dancing in religious celebration and to carry away whomever they chose as wives.
	www.ucgstp.org /bible/brp/jud21.htm (631 words)

	Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim as Contemporaries of David and Solomon
		Hickman found what he believed to be the people of Saul and David in the names "Benjamites" (Benjaminites) and "Dawidum" (Davidum), cited in "three date formulas" of the kings of Mari [3].
		Hickman was quite safe, from a linguistic point of view, in associating the "Benjamites" of the Mari Letters [ML] with the biblical Benjaminites.
		The Benjamites are not well disposed to the idea of a census.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /zimrilim.html (4633 words)

	Judges 19:16 Behold, there came an old man from his work out
		And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening; the man was from the hill country of E'phraim, and he was sojourning in Gib'e-ah; the men of the place were Benjaminites.
		Judges 19:16 YLT: And lo, a man, an aged one, hath come from his work from the field in the evening, and the man 'is' of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he 'is' a sojourner in Gibeah, and the men of the place 'are' Benjamites.
		Alphabetical: the an and at behold Benjamites Benjamites but came coming country Ephraim evening field fields from Gibeah he hill his in living man men Now of old out place staying That the Then was were who work
	bible.cc /judges/19-16.htm (403 words)

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		Finally, the Benjamites said: "We desired to prove whether the law emanated from God or from Moses." At the command of God these sinners and all their possessions were burnt with fire at the brook of Pishon.
		By lot it was determined that its dimmed lustre was due to the Benjamite Jonathan.
		His father encouraged him to oppose Goliath, for he considered it David's duty to protect Saul the Benjamite against the giant, as Judah, his ancestor, had in ancient days pledged himself for the safety of Benjamin, the ancestor of Saul.
	www.cumorah.com /etexts/4lotj10.txt (23034 words)

	The prophet Hosea. Bible critic. The tribe of Benjamin, Judah and Ephraim at war in Judges.
		The Israelites then turned back to deal with the remaining Benjamites, and put to the sword all the people in the towns and the cattle, and every living creature.
		Just as the story of Jezreel became a paradigm in Hosea's prophecy, so the story of the attack on the Benjamites is alluded to again and again in later chapters.
		They are thieves breaking into people's houses, bandits raiding the countryside...The King joins himself with arrogant men, and their hearts burn with intrigue...I long to deliver them but they tell lies about God...Their leaders will fall by the sword because of all their angry talk...Though they offer animal sacrifices, God will not accept them.
	www.awitness.org /lostmess/ramah.html (2413 words)

	alife . . . alliance life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The awful packages and the news of the Benjamites’ behaviour at Gibeah made an indelible impression upon the Israelites.
		The Benjamite leaders should have punished the men who had abused the Levite’s concubine or handed them over to the nation’s representatives (20:13).
		The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty), and they said, "We are defeating them as in the first battle." 40 But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky.
	www.alliancelife.org /resource/study0412.php (13182 words)

	THE SALVATION OF BENJAMIN JUDGES 21 Intro Num 31:13-18 EXPLAIN I. FIRST PRESENTATION OF PR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		There were 600 Benjamites (200 wives short) III.
		LOOK AT vs 21 & 23 - the word "dance" a) usually means "travail," "writhing," etc. having to do with labor pains & giving birth b) The girls were dancing to catch husbands c) This was not a rape as some suggest d) What would have been their father's objection?
		LOOK AT vs 22 e) The objection was not about marriage, but about the fact that Benjamites were the husbands (because of the oath) IV.
	www.skepticfiles.org /aj/judges17.htm (404 words)

	Antiquities of the Jews - Book 5, Chapter 2 - at BibleStudy.org
		So these men with sorrow confessed, that what had been done was according to the decree of God, and had happened for their own wickedness; and assented to those that invited them, and came down to their own tribe.
		So the Israelites were persuaded to follow this advice, and decreed, That the Benjamites should be allowed thus to steal themselves wives.
		So when the festival was coming on, these two hundred Benjamites lay in ambush before the city,by two and three together, and waited for the coming of the virgins, in the vineyards and other places where they could lie concealed.
	www.biblestudy.org /bibleref/antjews/ajb05c02.html (1622 words)

	Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Messiah
		And if Jerusalem was indeed the hereditary birthright of the Benjamites, Godfroi de Bouillon, in marching on the Holy City, would in fact have been reclaiming his ancient and rightful heritage...
		A dynastic marriage between Jesus and a royal daughter of the Benjamites would have been perceived as a source of healing to the people of Israel during their time of misery as an occupied nation.
		A dynastic marriage between a Benjamite heiress to the lands surrounding the Holy City and the messianic Son of David would have appealed to the fundamentalist Zealot faction of the Jewish nation.
	www.watch.pair.com /new-messiah.html (13708 words)

	SAB, Cruelty in Judges
		Then he chops her body up into twelve pieces and sends them to each of the twelve tribes of Israel 19:22-30
		To find wives for the Benjamites (they were unwilling to use their own daughters), the other tribes attacked and killed all occupants of a city except for the young virgins.
		These virgins were then given to the Benjamites for wives.
	www.skepticsannotatedbible.com /jg/cr_list.html (955 words)

	The Book Of Judges Index Page
		Judges Chapter 19 - As a reproof to the nation of Israel, a Levite cuts up his murdered wife and sends her body parts to the twelve tribes of Israel.
		Judges Chapter 20 - Over 25,000 Benjamites are slain by Israel their brother.
		Judges Chapter 21 - The Benjamites get wives from Shiloh.
	www.easylisteninganne.com /easylisteninganne_jdgs.html (293 words)

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