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Printed Caption:
The
Benjamites forcible seize the daughters of Israel.
Judges 21:6,7,19-23
And the children
of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said,
There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. How shall
we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn
by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to
wives? ...Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the
Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side
of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from
Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. Therefore
they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie
in wait in the vineyards; And see, and, behold, if the daughters
of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of
the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters
of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And it shall be,
when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain,
that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our
sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the
war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should
be guilty. And the children of Benjamin did so, and took
them wives, according to their number, of them that danced,
whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance,
and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. (KJV)
Figures
de la Bible (1728)
Illustrated by Gerard
Hoet (1648-1733), and others.
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