Free Bible Study: The History of Israel Under the Judges
Today’s Lesson: Mourning the Fate of Benjamin
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Through the extraordinary severity with which the tribes of Israel had carried on the war against Benjamin, this tribe had been reduced to 600 men, and brought very near to extermination. Such a conclusion to the bloody conflict went to the heart of the congregation. When forming the resolution to punish the unparalleled wickedness of the inhabitants of Gibeah with all the severity of the law, they had been urged on by nothing else than the sacred duty that was binding upon them to root out the evil from their midst; if only they would have acted with the same fierceness when God ordered them to kill all the inhabitants of the Promised Land.
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