BRAGADAYJAH 794
Accordingly, some wives were provided
for the men of the children of Benjamin; but there was further lack and the men
of Israel felt that more wives should be found for them that they shall not
become extinct as a tribe of Israel. Aware that there was a yearly feast coming
up, to be held on the north side of Bethel near the highway that passed up from
Bethel to Shechem; the children of Israel advised the children of Benjamin to
lie in wait in the vineyards; and if the daughters of Shiloh came out to dance,
then they should come out of the vineyards and catch each of them a wife of the
daughters of Shiloh and return to their home in Gibeah. The children of Israel assured them that if the
maidens fathers should make enquiry, the children of Israel would tell them
that they permitted it as they were responsible for the people of Benjamin been
destroyed in the war, and that they were making reparation to them. So the men
of Benjamin were able to get themselves wives and rebuild their cities and
return to be one of the twelve tribes of Israel at a time when there was no
king and each man did what was right in his own eyes.
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