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Truth_Teller

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I have some confusion reading The Bible. I cannot understand one chapter of it, it is the 19th chapter of the book Judges. Here it is:http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?boo...Now the problem here for me to understand is whose concubine was raped and murdered? Was he from the tribe of Benjaminite or Isaelite?Pardon for my ignorance if I misread anything here.Will be very grateful!
 

Christina

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This chapter has a double meaning it of course happened but its also prophcey in a spiritual sense of this End times so its somewhat symbolic for the literal part in Judges 19:2 "And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beh-lehem-judah, and was there four months."Some read from the latter manuscripts that this was "a year and four months", however I feel it was four months. The term "whore" as we think of it today, we consider it in terms of adultery, however in Israel, all Israelites were considered to be espoused to Jehovah, and to chase after another religion was considered an act of whoredom. In that it is not directly stated, however in these times whenever a woman left her husband, then men would say that the woman was a whore. In the Septuagint version, which is the Greek copy of the Hebrew manuscripts, was taken from a far older set of manuscripts then the King James. The Massorah itself refers to this woman as one that just returned to her father. The Septuagint worded it this way; "And there was a Levite sojourning from the sides of mount Ephraim, and he took to himself a concubine from Beth-lehem-judah, and the concubine departed from him, and went away from his to the house of her father, to Beth-lehem-judah, and she was there four months."The twist of calling this wife of the Levite was given by the king James' translators in the year 1611 when the King James version was made. The young wife of this Levite was homesick and she wanted to go back home for a while. If adultery had taken place this Levite would not have been so anxious to go get his wife. In the prophetic sense the nineteenth chapter of Judges is a prophetic warning concerning the time of the end, and how it shall be just prior to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is how it shall be when the one world beast of the end time is present on the earth. We know this from the warnings that the prophet Hosea gave in Hosea 9:6-9 concerning the days of visitation and recompense are come on the house of Israel, who are the Christian nations. This time is what is known as the great tribulation or deception. Lets go there and see what it has to say. Hosea 9:6 "For, lo, They are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: and pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles." Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: "the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad," for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.""The days of visitation" is the time of the second advent of Jesus Christ. It is when the seventh and final trumpet shall sound. Hosea is telling us that what happened in Gibeah as recorded here in Judges is how it shall be in those days just prior to our Lord's coming. Hosea 9:8 "The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God."Hosea 9:9 "They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore He will remember their iniquity, He will visit their sins."
 

LanceEh

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Someone who was a Benjamite was also an Israelite. Benjamin was a tribe in Israel. Israel was composed of twleve tribes, the tribe of Benjamin being one of them. The tribe of Benjamin was almost destroyed because of this (for they are the ones that did the action). Hope that makes sense.God bless.
 

Truth_Teller

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QUOTE (LanceEh @ Feb 24 2009, 03:04 AM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=69768
Someone who was a Benjamite was also an Israelite. Benjamin was a tribe in Israel. Israel was composed of twleve tribes, the tribe of Benjamin being one of them. The tribe of Benjamin was almost destroyed because of this (for they are the ones that did the action). Hope that makes sense.God bless.
Thanks for your answer! Yeah, now it does make sense. Otherwise I understood that perhaps people of some other Israelite tribe had committed this sin against the Benjamites.By the way, thanks to the other poster as well for making things very clear for me.