BRAGADAYJAH 785
What is your Verdict?
So the aggrieved husband took his
almost lifeless concubine wife and departed to his own place and on arrival, he
cut his wife up in twelve pieces and sent the parts into all the coasts of
Israel; and all that knew it marveled and said there has not been such a thing
seen in all Israel before, not since they had come out of Egypt unto that day.
In response, the children of Israel gathered themselves together with one
accord, from Dan to Beersheba and with the land of Gilead unto the Lord at
Mizpeh. And the chief of all of the tribes of Israel presented themselves in
the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand of them, footmen that wielded
the sword. And being thus assembled they asked the husband of the slain woman,
the Levite, to give an account to them of what had happened. And he answered
and said, “I came into Gibeah that is part of Benjamin with my wife to lodge
there; and the men of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house in which
I was, and threatened to slay me and my concubine whom they forced and now she
is dead. So I took her and cut her in pieces and sent the pieces into all the
country of the inhabitants of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and
folly in Israel.” Therefore, demanded
the husband, “What is your verdict?”
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