BRAGADAYJAH 792
Following the sour relations between
Benjamin and the other tribes of Israel, the children of Israel had vowed never
to allow their daughters to be given to a man of Benjamin for wife. And the people gathered together in the house
of God and remained there before the Lord from morning to night and sorrowed before
Him. And as they cried before the Lord they were troubled by the fact that
there was a tribe of Israel missing. And
early the next morning they rose up early and built there an altar before the
Lord, and offered burnt offerings and a peace offering before the Lord. And the
children of Israel recalled the oath before taken, that any tribe of the
congregation of Israel that does not appear before the Lord at Mizpeh should
surely be put to death. And so the children of Israel sorrowed over the plight
of Benjamin their brother. And worried
that those of the Benjamites that remain would have difficulty finding
themselves wives since they were decimated by reason of the war with Israel.
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