re: #159 SanFranciscoZionist

So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children. “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.” They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.

Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon. So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.

Um, is there a point, or should we just post Judges, verse by verse?

The point is that these days, we would reject the attempt to live by the rules of these ancient tribes as morally abhorrent. Slavery and genocide ain’t good things these days.