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Continuing the disagreeable theme of not taking into consideration the preferences of women with regard to marriage partners, Judges 21 regards more seriously the situation of the men of Benjamin being unmarried, than searching for appropriate husbands for the women (see verses 12-23):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 maidens who had not known a man carnally\u2026 Then the whole community sent word to the Benjaminites\u2026The Benjaminites returned, and they gave them the girls who had been spared from the women of Jabesh-gilead. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>But there were not enough of them\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They said, \u201cThe annual feast of the LORD is now being held at Shiloh.\u201d\u2026 \u201cGo and lie in wait in the vineyards. As soon as you see the girls of Shiloh coming out to join in the dances, come out from the vineyards; let each of you seize a wife from among the girls of Shiloh, and be off for the land of Benjamin\u2026The Benjaminites did so. They took to wife, from the dancers whom they carried off\u2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Israelites at that time cared more that (v. 6) \u201c\u2026one tribe had been cut off from Israel!\u201d than for the personal welfare of these many women!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The disclaimer at the end of the chapter - \u201cThere was no king in Israel; everyone did as he pleased\u201d - serves not only as an introduction to I Samuel, but is a means for the contemporary reader to be able to process many of the negative behaviors that are in evidence\u00a0 throughout Judges.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mahari Kara (France; 1065-1135) explains this verse as referencing the questionable activities over the course of this biblical book:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026Don\u2019t be perturbed at 1) Samson who wouldn\u2019t have anything to do with Israelite women, but loved a (<\/span>Philistine<\/span><\/i>) woman from Wadi Sorek (Judges 16:4), and 2) that he was captured by the Philistines who removed his eyes; and don\u2019t be shocked 3) by the mother of Micah who took 200 pieces of silver, gave them to a smelter who made a molten idol (17:4); and 4) at Micah himself who erected a Temple to idolatry, and made for himself an Ephod and Terafim, and inducted one of his sons to become a priest for him (17:5); and 5) at a man from the tribe of Levi who Micah also influenced to became an idolatrous priest (17:17); and don\u2019t be amazed 6) at the tribe of Dan who set up Micah\u2019s idol (18:31); and not 7) at the worthless individuals in the valley of Benjamin who assaulted and killed the concubine of the Levite (19:25-7), because in those days, there was no king in Israel who would afflict them and instruct them in the way of goodness and correctness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The \u201dwild west\u201d nature of Judges would probably not have been completely \u201ctamed\u201d by the sorts of kings of Judah and Israel that subsequently appear, but at least the situation would not have been as extreme and objectionable.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":95932,"alt":"","title":"ruth1-womans hands 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If one looks at chapter 21 with one eye closed, it seems like a very uplifting chapter. The tribe of Benjamin is nearly wiped out. The other tribes are crestfallen that their fellow tribe may become extinct. On the other hand, the tribes had vowed that no daughter would be given over to Benjamin as a wife. So, the tribes find the one city that did not participate in the vow and they give their young maidens over to the last surviving Benjaminites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But these young maidens are not enough to help repopulate the tribe. The rest of the tribes turn to a local custom in the town near Shiloh. (Later, this would be associated with the holiday of Tu Be\u2019av, a holiday of love). Young women dance in the fields and the Benjaminites can select their new brides from the group. Everyone then goes back to their tent happy. The chapter ends with the oft repeated phrase- there was no king in Israel and everyone did what they pleased. This sounds beautiful, right? The people have mended their ways and learned to work together without the need for a king!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sad reality is that this chapter is much darker than this rosy picture. The reason the tribes are in this dilemma is because they massacred an entire tribe- men, women, and children. Only 400 survivors remain. Yes, the tribes took a vow, but this also means the tribes learned nothing from Jephthah about vow annulment. They discover that Jabesh Gilead did not come to fight and did not take the vow. Their reward? Yet another massacre. They slaughter the men and the married women to free up the 400 virgin maidens of the town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These young women are not enough, however. So the people turn toward an innocent local custom, and allow the Benjaminites to kidnap more young maidens and take them as wives. Now the last two verses make more sense. Despite the last three chapters, the Israelites once again return to their own lands. They do not use this opportunity to unite under a common cause. Everyone just goes back to their own place. The nation is rudderless. Without a king they have descended into chaos. Even a story that sounds beautiful is full of darkness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The book of Judges tells the story of the dark ages of Israelite history. It is a book of redemption, but also of lessons gone unlearned. It is a book of heroes, but also a book of broken leadership. It is a book of great miracles, but also of fractured connection to God.\u00a0 It is a book of great stories, but also one of repeated mistakes. It is both a book advocating for a monarchy and one that dreads its very existence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Mishnah declares:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No festivals were as joyous to Israel as 15 Av and Yom HaKippurim, on which the young women of Jerusalem would turn out in borrowed white clothes in order not to embarrass anyone who had no [finery] of their own\u2026 They would dance in the vineyards calling to the young men: Look up and choose! Pay no mind to wealth but to family\u2026 (Ta`anit 4:8)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the dates were chosen for symbolic value\u2014on 15 Av, the last of the generation that was fated to die in the wilderness passed, and Yom HaKippurim, the day on which the second set of tablets was delivered, marking the start of Israel\u2019s redemption after the sin of the golden calf\u2014the pageant itself seems to be patterned after the events described in this, the closing chapter of the Book of Judges.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we noted at the close of the previous chapter, the few surviving Benjaminites were facing extinction as a tribe because of two factors: The first, implicit, is that only men survived the civil war, and the second, explicit, was that the remaining tribes took an oath not to give their daughters in marriage to Benjaminites (v.1). When the Israelites experienced regret over this alarming prospect, they resorted to a legal circumvention: Since the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were not present when the oath was taken, they were technically not bound by it, so 400 of their unmarried women were given to the Benjaminites.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, since there were at least 600 (and perhaps as many as 1,000) Benjaminite men who needed wives\u2014as we calculated at the end of the previous chapter\u2014another stratagem had to be adopted. The Benjaminites were advised to set up an ambush (the very same strategy that had been their undoing at Gibeah, cf. 20:29) and when the young women of Shiloh came out to dance in the vineyards, they were to take them to be their wives. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not at all an acceptable strategy from the perspective of an age of #MeToo, but clearly passable in that early patriarchal era.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: <\/span>Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Benjaminites seize wives from Shiloh<\/em>, woodcut, 1860 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":56535,"alt":"","title":"jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","width":800,"height":654,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-300x245.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":245,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-768x628.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":628,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","large-width":800,"large-height":654,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":654,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":654,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":654,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-514x420.png","home_baner-width":514,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"It Wasn't Sadie Hawkins Day at Shiloh","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Let them ambush our women - 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The chapter, and book, ends with the verse, \"there was no king in Israel; everyone did as he pleases.\" Two questions present themselves here: is this statement in any way connected to the events described in the chapter \u2013 the war between the rest of the tribes and Benjamin? Also, is this necessarily a critique, a rebuke of a nation\u2019s lawlessness in the absence of a monarch?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A closer look at the chapter indicates that the final verse indeed relates to its overall theme. We find the connection in the disjointed presentation of verses in the chapter. These are comprised of simultaneous, and conflicting, voices within the nation: some take an oath against the Benjaminites; others are concerned with the tragic consequences of such a decision; others still are busy with identifying those that did not join the assembly. That is to say there is a lack of focus, the cause of which seems to be an absence of one authority. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But we can also see the connection between the decentralized state of the nation and the occurrences of this chapter in the decisions to make two concessions to the tribe of Benjamin, namely, to send the women of Jabesh Gilead to the Benjaminites and the scheme whereby Benjamin would be allowed to take the women who celebrated at Shilo. In both these cases, these ideas would likely not have been permitted by a king, who would presumably take the women as captives of his kingdom, and would deem the concession to Benjamin to be a sign of weakness. Indeed, even the process through which those two decisions were made was decisively democratic. On both occasions, the motivation to make concessions came about by popular sentiment alone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By way of contrast, a king\u2019s decision is made either by reference to God\u2019s revealed will, his national objectives, or possibly a personal motivation. In this way, the fact that the other tribes agreed to this scheme, which was not strictly speaking within the letter of the law or in agreement with national interests, was only by virtue of not having a king. 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In this series we explored how the Israelites at the end of Judges appear to act virtuously, but in reality approach blessings to God, searching for a home, hospitality, and seeking unity through depravity and sin. We then saw how characters in Ruth infuse virtue into each of these societal acts while learning to see beyond Ruth\u2019s foreign surface and recognize her inner goodness. In this last chapter of Judges we will contrast one final theme: how the Israelites in Judges and then in Ruth attempt to save a part of Israel they fear may become lost forever. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

After the Israelites win the civil war against their brother Benjamin, they virtuously cry out upon realizing the men of Benjamin have no women to marry and therefore may disappear as a tribe. The Israelites, however, are themselves to blame as they killed all the women of Benjamin and had earlier taken an oath against marrying into the tribe of Benjamin. In fact, they swore that anyone from among Israel who did not partake in this oath should be put to death. The Israelites then realize that the people of Jabesh-gilead were not at the oath-taking ceremony. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Israelites send fighters to Jabesh-gilead with instruction to kill all the men, married women and children, thereby seemingly fulfilling their obligation to kill those who didn\u2019t take that oath. They then leave the virgin women alive, breaking the very oath they just murdered a whole city for, and give those women to the Benjaminite men. There are not enough women, however, so they instruct the men of Benjamin to hide and seize other women celebrating a festival for the Lord. The Israelites have \u201csaved\u201d a tribe of Israel through additional mass killings and seizing of innocent women.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the last chapter of Ruth, Boaz also encounters the potential loss of a part of Israel, the possibility of Naomi\u2019s family\u2019s names disappearing if a relative does not redeem their field. After a closer relative declines to redeem the field and marry Ruth, Boaz, a distant relative, marries Ruth and redeems the field as he proclaims that<\/span> 'the name of the deceased should not be cut off from among his brothers'<\/span><\/i> (Ruth 4:10). This redemption ends not with mass killing, but with a new life, the birth of a son to Boaz and Ruth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Through exploring words, actions and themes, we saw how the book of Ruth serves as a contrast to the corruption in the end of Judges. The book of Ruth then is a redemptive story about a nation as they learn to look beyond the surface, and overcome their transgressions from Judges. While the last episodes in Judges refrain and ultimately end with <\/span>there was no king in Israel<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>every man did what was right in his own eyes <\/span><\/i>(Judges 21:25), the book of Ruth concludes with the pronouncement that the people merit a new era of kingship, as the union of Boaz and Ruth leads directly to the birth of King David.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For a fuller exploration about the contrast between the end of the Book of Judges and the Book of Ruth, please see: Raskas, Jennifer R.<\/span><\/i> \u201cThe Book of Ruth: A Contrast to the End of the Book of Judges.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/a> Jewish Bible Quarterly. Volume 43:4 (2015): p. 223-232<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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Each time we encounter a text, we read it from our own perspective. Some people may find a poem touching and poignant, others may think it trite and sugary. Some may laugh at a clever joke, others may find it gauche or perplexing. Sometimes we need tools, such as a lexicon or dictionary, to understand a text. Sometimes we come across texts that we struggle to understand at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Modern Hebrew, <\/span>mishpat<\/span><\/em> means two things: a \u201csentence,\u201d a unit of written text ending with a period; and \u201claw.\u201d A <\/span>beit mishpat<\/span><\/em> is a court (\u201chouse\u201d) of law. A judge is a <\/span>shofet<\/span><\/em>, one who judges and gives sentences. Sometimes, the English translation can lead us astray. The Book of Judges, called <\/span>shoftim<\/span><\/em> in Hebrew, records the <\/span>shoftim<\/span><\/em> who led the nation of Israel as they settled the promised land of Canaan. Yet, to understand <\/span>shoftim<\/span><\/em> as \u2018judges\u2019 from our modern perspective is misleading. The ancient <\/span>shoftim<\/span><\/em> had a role more complex than a judge in a court of law. They led the Israelites in battle against other nations, governing and ruling over the people to carry out God\u2019s will.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Book of Judges, there is tension between the people, the judges and God. There is a verse repeated twice verbatim, in two separate chapters: <\/span>\u2018In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did as he pleased\u2019 (Judges 17:6, 21:25). It is in fact the phrase that concludes the entire book. It exudes a sense of frustration from the narrator, who deplores the lack of divinely ordained sovereignty in the nation of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Biblical scholars link this verse to a commandment uttered by Moses in his address to the people of Israel before his death, back in the Book of Deuteronomy \u2013 considered to be the basis for the theology found in the Book of Judges. It states: \u2018You shall not act at all as we now act here, every man as he pleases\u2019 (Deuteronomy 12:8). Once the people of Israel reach the promised land, their behavior must change. Creating a nation is not a straightforward path but a journey filled with twists, bumps, and wrong turns. Stating the law is one thing, living it is another. 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  1. Sorta regretful<\/span><\/i>. The Israelites express regret, and even weep, but note that in the text there isn\u2019t a smidgen of responsibility-taking for what has happened: \u201cWhy has this happened in Israel, that one tribe must now be missing from Israel?\u201d (verse 3); \u201cThis day one tribe has been cut off from Israel!\u201d (verse 6); \u201cWhat can we do about wives for those who are left, since the women of Benjamin have been killed off?\u201d (16).<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Everything is in 3rd person, passive. In other words: how could this situation possibly have come about? What has it got to do with us?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Festival in the vineyards<\/span><\/i>. Almost as an aside, we read about a lovely dance festival in the vineyards of Shiloh, that is reminiscent of what we know from 2nd Temple times as Tu Be\u2019Av, which in modern Israel has become a sort of Valentine\u2019s day.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Creative solutions - seriously!?<\/span><\/i>. To solve the problem of the need of the remnant of Benjamin to wed, the rest of Israel offers two different - and twisted - solutions. Did someone say - \u201ceveryone did as they pleased\u201d?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. King!<\/i> If you\u2019ve come to the conclusion that all this has happened because \u201cIn those days there was no king in Israel\u201d (and even if you haven\u2019t) - then you are ripe for the Book of Samuel<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Judges 21","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Judges","chapter":"21","chapter_main_number":"232","date":"20260720","wall_id":"232"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/56058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}