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Tour · c. 1150 BC
The war with Benjamin
Bethlehem Judg 19:1–9
A Levite of mount Ephraim goes to Bethlehem-judah to bring back his concubine; her father keeps him feasting for five days.
Open on the map →Jebus Judg 19:10–12 · ≈ 8 km in a straight line
With the day far spent they reach Jebus, which is Jerusalem; the Levite will not lodge in a city of strangers and goes on to Gibeah.
Open on the map →Gibeah Judg 19:13–30 · ≈ 5 km in a straight line
At Gibeah of Benjamin no one takes them in but an old man; the men of the city abuse the concubine through the night, and she dies at the door. The Levite cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends them through all the coasts of Israel.
Open on the map →Mizpah Judg 20:1–17 · ≈ 7 km in a straight line
All Israel, "from Dan even to Beer-sheba", gathers to the Lord at Mizpah; Benjamin refuses to give up the men of Gibeah.
Open on the map →Bethel Judg 20:18–28 · ≈ 5 km in a straight line
At the house of God, in Hebrew Beth-el and usually taken as the town of Bethel, Israel asks who shall go up first; twice beaten, they weep and fast before the ark, where Phinehas the son of Eleazar serves, and are told to go up once more.
Open on the map →Gibeah Judg 20:29–44 · ≈ 11 km in a straight line
An ambush is set round Gibeah; the city is taken and burned, and Benjamin is smitten: 25,100 men fall that day.
Open on the map →Rimmon Judg 20:45–48 · ≈ 8 km in a straight line
Six hundred men flee to the rock of Rimmon in the wilderness and stay there four months, all that is left of the tribe.
Open on the map →Jabesh-gilead Judg 21:1–14 · ≈ 71 km in a straight line
Israel has sworn not to give Benjamin wives. Jabesh-gilead sent no one to Mizpah: twelve thousand men smite it and bring four hundred virgins to the camp at Shiloh.
Open on the map →Shiloh Judg 21:15–25 · ≈ 53 km in a straight line
At the yearly feast of the Lord in Shiloh the Benjamites, hidden in the vineyards, catch wives from the daughters of Shiloh as they come out to dance. "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."
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