Tribe of Benjamin

The last episode in the Book of Judges deals with the Tribe of Benjamin. A Levite woman was murdered while visiting the Benjamite city of Gibeah. Her distraught husband took his wife's dead body to his home in Ephrain and sent a message to Israel where all vowed to go to Gibeah to avenge the woman's death. Thus began the murderous civil war agaisnt the tribe of Benjamin. Thousands upon thousands perished-- men, women, and children. Eventually, only six hundred fighting men were able to escape.

After their anger against the Benjamites had cooled, the Israelites were horrified that one tribe of twelve, should disappear. So twelve thousand men were sent against the city of Jabesh-gilead, which had not joined with the other tribes in battle. The Israelites captured the city, killed the men, and took all the women as wives for the remaining Benjamites. The remaining men of the Tribe of Benjamin went to the city of Shiloh, where the maidens were dancing in fields for their yearly feast. The men carried off as many women as they needed for wives. Thus was Benjamin re-established among the tribes.

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