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Post #628256

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darth_ender
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Religion
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19-Mar-2013, 4:35 PM

Bingowings said:

Ted said :

Judges 21:10-24

I like the part where it says, "God commanded that..."  Wait.  Where was that?  Can't find it now.  Hmmmm...  Well, the people were so righteous at this time that surely they would do nothing contrary to the will of God.  But it looks like the theme of the whole book is how unrighteous and disobedient the people were.  Let's look at Judges 21:25, the verse immediately following your reference.

In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

If rape took place, which sounds plausible in those verses, though not as explicit as verses where the Bible speaks against it, it does not sound like God condoned it.  It merely sounds like a historical recounting of what happened when the people were wicked and bloodthirsty against the Benjamites.