In this video listen to Judges 21 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

Judges 21 is possibly the strangest chapter in the Bible? Everyone in Benjamin is dead except for 600 men. St Paul was a descendant of Benjamin, who here was nearly wiped out. This story outlines how they found wives for these men, given that they ha taken vows not to give wives to them. First one city had no participate in the battle, Jabesh Gilead.

The inhabitants of the city of Jabesh Gilead were completely destroyed except for 400 virgin women. The 400 virgins provide wives for two thirds of the remaining Benjamites. They then arrange a strange kidnapping process to obtain the other 200. All of this is entertaining but very odd. The book concludes saying that there was no king, and everyone lived however they deemed right to them. The last sent ...