. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. s, who sallied fromthe town of Gibeah against them. Corrected by thisexperience, they applied in a proper manner to learnthe will of their king ; and then the victory was pro-mised to them. In their next attempt, the Israelites resorted to thesame familiar stratagem of ambuscade and of pre-tended flight, when the besieged sallied forth againstthem, as that whereby the town of Ai had been takenby Joshua, and with precisely the same result. Eighteenthousand Benjamites, men of valour, were trodden dow
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. s, who sallied fromthe town of Gibeah against them. Corrected by thisexperience, they applied in a proper manner to learnthe will of their king ; and then the victory was pro-mised to them. In their next attempt, the Israelites resorted to thesame familiar stratagem of ambuscade and of pre-tended flight, when the besieged sallied forth againstthem, as that whereby the town of Ai had been takenby Joshua, and with precisely the same result. Eighteenthousand Benjamites, men of valour, were trodden down with ease by the vast hostwhich now enclosed them. The rest endeavoured to escape to the wilderness, but were allovertaken and destroyed, with the exception of 600 who found shelter among the rocks ofRimmon. The conquerors then went through the land, subjecting it to military set on fire all the towns to which they came, and put to the sword the men, the cattle,and all that came to hand. But when the heat of the conflict and execution had subsided, the national and clannish. [Slings.] I Chap. II] FROM JOSHUA TO GIDEON. 37I feelings of the Israelites were shocked at the reflection that they had extinguished a tribe inIsrael. It was true that 600 men remained alive among the rocks of llimmon; but it wasnot clear how the race of Benjamin could be continued through them, as, at the very com-mencement of the undertaking, the Israelites had solemnly sworn that they would not givetheir daughters in marriage to the Benjamites. They had now leisure to repent of this vow ;although, with reference to the vile propensities exhibited by the people of Gibeah, it wasquite natural that in the first excitement such a vow should have been taken. But now they were sincerely anxious to find means of repairing their error, and to providethe survivors with wives, that the house of Benjamin might not be wholly lost. It was foimdthat the summons whereby the tribes had been assembled,
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