thy hand-maid, and for the young man which is with thy fervants; there is no want of any thing. 20. And the old man faid, Peace be with thee: how foever, let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the ftreet 21 So he brought him in to his house, and gave pro. vender unto the affes and they wahed their feet, and did eat and drink. 22 Now as they were making their hearts merry behold, the men of the city, certain fons of Be lial, befer the house round about, and beat at the door and fpake to the matter of the house, the old man, laying, Bring forth the man that came into thine houfe, that we may know him. 23 And the man, the matter of the house went out unto them, and faid untothem, Nay, my brethren: n7, I pray you, do not fo wickedly;feing that this man is come into mine b. ufe, do not this folly. 24 Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine,them I will bring out now,and humble ye them,and do with them what feemeth good unto you? but unto this man do not fo vile a thing. 25 But the men would not hearken to him:fo the man took his concubine. and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her,and abufed her all the hight until the morning: and when the day began to fpring; they let her go. 16 Then came the woman in the dawing of the day, & fell down at the door of the mans houfe, where her lord is, tillit was light. 27 And her ford rote up In the morning, and ope ned the door or the houfe, and went out to go his way: and behold, the wo. man his concubine was fallen down at the door of 28 And he fald unto her Up. and let us be going but none anfwered, Then the man took her up upon an afs, and the man rofe up, and gate him unto his place. 29 And when he was come into his houfe, he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine, and di vided her, together with her bones into twelve ple ces, and fent her into al the coats of Ifrael.. 30 And it was fo, thata that faw it, fald, There was no fuch deed done not feen, from the day that the children of Ifrael came up our of the land of Egypt unto this day confidero it, take advice, and fpeak your minds. CHAP. XX. THen all the children of Ifrael went out,and the congregation was gathe red together, as one man, from Dan even to Beerhe ba, with the land of Gi lead, unto the LORD to Mizpeh." 2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Ifrael, prefented themselves in the aflembly of the people of God, four hundred thoufand, foot men that drew (word. 3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that th children of Ifrael were gone up to Mizpeh) The aid tue children of Ifrael Tell us, how was this wickedness? 4 And the Levite the husband of the woman that was flain, anfwered and faid, I came un'o Gi beah that belongeth to Renjamin, I and my concubine to lodge, And the men of Gibeah rofe againft me, and befe the house round about up on me by night ans thought to have flain me ant my concubine have they forced,thar fhe is dea bine, and cut her in plece 6 And I cook my concu the house, and her hands and fent her throughode were upon the shreshold. au all the countrey of the in- chofen men left handed heritance of Ifrael for every one could fling ftones ar an hair breadth, and not mifs. they have committed 9 But now, this ball be 10 And we will take ten men ofan hundredthrough out all the tribes of Ifrael, and an hundred ofa thou. fand, and a thoufand our of ten thousand, to fetch victual forthe people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in lfrael. 1 So all the men of If ral were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. 12 And the tribes of If racl fent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, fay ing, What wickedness is this that is done among you? 13 Now therefore dellver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah; that we, may put them to death, and pur away evil from Ifrael. But the children of Benjamin, would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Ifrael.. 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered them. felves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battel against the children of Ifrael. 15 And the children of Benjamin were numbred at that time out of the cities, twenty and fix thousand men that drew fword, befide the inhabitants of Glbeah,which were numbred feven hundred chofen men 16 Among all this people there were feven hundred 17 And the men of Ifrael belide Benjamin, numbred four hundred thoufand men that drew word ; allthefe were men of war. 18 And the children of Ifrael arofe, and went up to the houfe of God, and asked counfel of God, and faid, Which of us that go up firft to the barrel a gainst the children of Ben jamin? and the Lord laid, Judab fhall go up firft. 19 And the children of Ifrael rofe up in the mor. ning, & encamped againft Gibeah. 20 And the men of Ifrael went out to battel against Benjamin, and the men of Ifrael pur themselves in aray to fight again them at Gibeah. 21 And the children of Benjamin came forth our of Gibeah, and deflroyed down to the ground of the Ifraelites that day, twenty and two thousand men. 22 And the people the men or Ifrael encouraged themfelves, and fet their battel again in aray in the place where they put them. felves in aray the first day. 23 (And the children of Iftael went up and wept before the LORD until e ven, and asked connfel of. the Lord,faying, Shal I go up again to barrel against the chlidren of Benjamin my brother?And the Lord fald, Go up against him. 24 And the children of Ifrael came near against the children of Benjamin the fecond day. 25 And Benjamin weir forth again them out of Gibeah the fecond day, and deftroyed down to the ground of the children of Ifrael again, eighteen thousand men: all thefa drew the fword. 26 Then all children of Ifrael and all the people Pa went up, and came unto The house of God, & wept, and fat there before the Lord, and fafted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings before the Lord. 27 And the children of Ifrael enquired of the LORD (for the ark ofthe covenant of God wasthere in thofe days." 28 And Phinehas the fon of Eleazar, the fon of A. ron, food before if in thole days) faying, Shall yer again go our to bartel againit the children of Benjamin my brother, or thall I ceafe? And the Lord faid, Go up for to morTow I will deliver them in to thine hand. 29 And Ifrael fet llers in wait round about Gibeah. 30 And the children of Ifrael went up againit the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in aray against Gibeah, as at other rimes. 31 And the children of Benjamin went out again The people, and were drawn away from the city, and they began to infire of the people, 44 kilasat other times, in the high ways of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field abour thirty men of Ifrael. 32 And the children of Benjamin fald, They are Imitten down before us as ar the fire. But the Chil dren of lfrael Yald, Lerus fee, & draw themfrom the city, anto the high ways. 33 And all the men off raci tore up but of their place, and put themfelves in aray at Baal tamar: and the llers walt of Ifrael came forth our of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah. 24 And there came again Gibeab ten thousand cho and the children of Ifrael deftroyed of the Benja mires that day,twenty and five thousand and an hun dred men; all thefe drew the fword. 36 So the children of Benjamin faw that they were fmitten: for he men of Ifrael gave place to the Benjamites, because they trufted unto the liers in wait which they had fet befide Gibeah.. 37 And the llers in wait hafted, and rushed upon Gibeah, and the liers In wait drew themselves along and fmote all the citywith the edge of the fword. 38 Now there was an ap. pointed fign between the men of Ifrael and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with Imoke to rife up out of the city." 39 And when the men of Jfrael retired in the bar: el, Benjamin began to fmite and kill of rhe men' of If rael abour thirty perfons; for they fald, Surely they are fairten down before is, as in the first battel. 40 But when the flame began to arife up out of the city, with a pillar of fmoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and behold; the flame of the city afcended up to heaven 41 And when the men of Ifrael turned again, the men of Benjamin were a mazed for they faw that evil was come upon them. 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Ifrael, unro the way of the 'wilderness; but the Barrèr overtook them: and them which came out of the cities, they dearoyed in the midst ofthem. 43 Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about. and chafed them,and trode: them down with cafe over Gibeah toward the fen men out of a fore: fan-rifing. was but they knew not that 44 And there fell of Benell near them. Jamin eighteen thonland. P3 And the LORD fmote men all there are men of Benjamin before Ifrael: Vätom. 45 And And they turned and Aed toward the wildernefs nto the rock of Rimmon and they gleaned of them, in the high ways fivethou fand men, & purfited hard after them unto Gidom, and flew two thoufand men of them. 46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin,were twenty and five thousand men that drew the fword, allthefewere men ofvalour 47 But fix hundred men turned and fled to the wil dernefs unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in. the rock Rimmon four moneths. 45 And the men of Ifrael turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and Imote them with the edge of the fword, as well the men of every city, as the beaft, and all that came to, hand; alfo they fer on fire all the cities that they cameto. Benjamin their brother, & faid, There is one tribe cut off from Ifrael this day 7 How hall we do for wives for them that remain,felng we have fworn by the LORD, that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? 8 And they faid, What one is there of the tribes of Ifrael, that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD?and behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeh gilead to the affembly.. 9 For the people were numbrod, and behold,there were none of the inhabl tants of Jabeth gilead here 10 And the congregation fent thither twelve thou fand men of the valianten, &commanded them,faying Go and fmite the Inhabi tants of Jabeth gilead with the edge of the word with the women and thechildren 11 And this is the thing that ye thal do, Ye fhail С CHAP. XXI. utterly destroy every male Now the men, of Ifrael and every woman that had worn inzpeb, hath llen by man. faying, There har nor any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lift up their voices, and wept fore: 3 And fald, O Lord God of Ifrael, why is this come to pass in Ifrael,that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Ifrael? 4 And it came to pass on the morrow thar the people rofe early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings. And the children of If rael faid, Who is there a mong all the tribes of Ifras el, that came not up with the congregarion unto the LORD forthey had made a great oath concerning him that came nor up to the LORDro Mizpeh, fay Ing. He thal furely be put to death. 6 And the children of Ifrael repented them for 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabebegilead, four hun. dred young virgins that had known no man by ly. ing with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 13 And the whole con gregation fent fome to peak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. 14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had faved alivé of the women of Jabefh gilead and yet to they iufficed them not. 15 Andthe people repen ted them for Benjamin, be caufe that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Ifrael. 16 Then the elders of the congregation fald, How that we do for wives for them char remain,felng P 3 the JUDGES. the women are defroyed and go to the land of Ben jamin. out of Benjamin? 22 And it fhal be, when their fathers or their bre thren come unto us to complain, that we will fay unto them, Be favourable unto them for our fakes, becaufe we referved nor ro each man his wife in the war; for ye did not give unto them at this time, you should be guilty. 19 Then they fald, Be hold, there is a feaft of the LORD tn Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north fide of Beth-el, on the caft fide of the high way that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the fouth of Lebonah. 20 Therefore they com2, And the children of manded the children of Ifrael departed thence at Benjamin, faying, Go and that time, every man to lie in waitin the vineyards his tribe, and to his fami 21 And fee, and behold, ly, and they went out If the daughters of Shiloh from thence every man co come out to dance in bis inheritance. dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, & catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, 23 And the children of Benjamin did fo, and rook them wives according to their numbers of them that danced,whom they caught and they went & returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities,and dwelt in them. 25 In those days there wa no king in 1frael: every man did that which was right la his own eyes. The Book of RUTH. CHAP. I. Nthe days when the and they dwelled there: about ten years the days when the 5 And Mahlon and Chijudges ruled, that lion died alfo bork of there was a famine in the them; and the woman was land and a certain man left of her two fons and. or Bethlehem-judah went her husband.. to fojourn in the couatrey of Moab, he and his wife, * and his two fons. 2 And the name of the man as Elimelech, and the name of his wife Na omi, and the name of his two fons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth lehem judah : and they came into the countrey of Moab, 8c continued there. 3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband, died,and he was left, and her two fons. 4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Rath: 6 Then the arofe with her daughters in law,that. the might return rom the countrey of Moab for fe had heard in the countrey or Moab, how that the LORD had vifited his people, in giving them bread. Wherefore the went forth out of the place. where the was,andher wo daughters in law with her. and they went on the way. to return unto the land of Judah. 8 And Naomi faid unto her two daughters in law, Go,return each to her mo. thets houfe: the LORD deal kindly withyou, as |