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Default Re: Series of the greatest smitings in the Bible. - 04-09-2011, 01:02 AM

Today's story comes from Judges 19-21. It's not really the smiting that is so important, but the cause and after effects. I'm going to do this one in three parts.

You might want to put the kids to bed for this one. It is truly a story of epic betrayal and smiting on so many levels.

The Background

It all begins with our anti-hero a Levite priest. He is unnamed in this story. We only know him as the Levite.

Our main character has taken a concubine of Bethlehemjudah. A nice Jewish girl.

Judges 19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

This woman cheats on him and then runs off to her father's house. Whore!

2And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.

Being the gutless fellow he is, he runs after her to her father's to try to talk some sense into her instead of kicking her to the curb.

And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her

Total beta move. The father of the unnamed woman comes to greet him. They go through this ritual every day of the Levite trying to leave with his woman and the father asking him to stay to eat and drink another night. Finally after the sixth day the Levite would tarry no longer. He has to split. I think this may have angered God. The man sitting idly around eating and drinking for 6 days.

No thanks. I would rather stay among my own

The man, his servant and his concubine come to a Jebusite town. The servant wants them to stay there for the night, but the Levite says no.
He wants to travel on further to a town that the Benjamites, his fellow Jewish cousins own.

12 We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
14And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

The Levite comes to Gibeah that his fellow Jewish cousins own and there he meets an old man. The two get to talking and it is decided that the Levite and his family will stay there. Everything is working out splendidly.

18 there is no man that receiveth me to house.
19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
20And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
21So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

Sodomites at the dooragain? I thought we went over this already.

Then suddenly there comes a knock at the door. A mob has formed at the old man's house wanting to rape the Levite.

Judges 19:22 Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

Hmmm, sounds familiar to some other story I might have read. In the other story, God punishes the offenders more quickly. This event must be completely unrelated.

The old man the master of the house walks outside and talks to them offering his virgin daughter (Only one this time) and the Levite's concubine.

24Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

The Rape

The men would not listen, so the Levite took his concubine and threw her out to the crowd where they commenced to rape her all night long.

25But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

After the mob had raped her all night long, the Levite found his concubine dead on the steps of his host's house.

27And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.

Chopping her up after she was raped to death.


The Levite proceeds to cut his concubine to into 12 pieces to send a piece to each of the tribes of Israel.

And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

The smiting can proceed against the Benjamites now.



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