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Poe Benjamires Pain.

Chap. xxi.

Gibeab burned. 285 against the children of Benjamin the fec-¡between the men of Ifrael and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with (moke rife up out of the city.

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25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the fecond day, and destroyed down to the ground of the chuldren of Ifrael again eighteen thoufand men; all thefe drew the fword

26 Thea all the children of Ifrael,and ali the people, went up, and came unto the houfe of God,and wept, and fat there before the LORD, and falted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

27 And the children of Ifrael inquired of the LORD. (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in thofe days,

28 And Phinehas, the fou of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron, stood before it in thole days) faying, Shal! I yet again go out to battle againit the children of Benjamin my brother or, Shall I ceafe? And the LORD faid, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

59 And when the men of Ifrael retired in the battle, Benjamin began to imite and kill of the men of Ifrael about thirty perfons; for they laid, Eurely they are imitten down before us. as in the first battle.

40 But when the flame began to arife up out of the city with a pillar of fmoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and behold, the flame of the city afcended up

to heaven.

41 And when the men of Ifrael turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they faw that evil was come upon them.

42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Ifrael unto the way of the wildernefs; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they deftroyed in the midst of them. 48 Thus they enclofed the Benjamites 29 And Ifrael fet liers in wait round around about, and chafed them, and trode bout Gibeah. them down with case over against Gibeah toward the funrfing.

30 And the children of Ifrael went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themfelves in array againft Gibeah, as at other times.

44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men all thefe were men of valour.

$1 And the children of Benjamin went 45 And they turned and fled toward out against the people, and were drawn the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: away from the city: and they began to and they gleaned of them in the highways fmite of the people, and kill, as at other five thousand men; and pursued hard times, in the highways, of which one go-after them unto Gidom, and flew two eth up to the houfe of God, and the other thousand men of them.

to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men 46 So that all which fell that day of of Ifrael Benjamin were twenty and five thoufand 32 And the children of Benjamin faid,men that drew the fword; all thele were." They are fmitten down before us, as at men of valour. the firft. But the children of Ifrael said, Let us flee. and draw them from the city unto the highways.

33 And all the men of Ifrael rofe up out of their place, and put themfelves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Ifrael came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Ifrael, and the battle was fore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

35 And the LORD fmote Benjamin before Ifrael and the children of Ifrael deftroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all thefe drew the fword.

36 So the children of Benjamin faw that! they were fmitten: for the men of Ifrael gave place to the Benjamites, because they trufted unto the liers in wait which they had fet befide Gibeah.

57 And the liers in wait hafted, and ruthed upon Gibeah: and the liers in wait drew bemfelves along, and finote all the city with the edge of the fword. 38 Now there was an appointed fign

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47 But fix hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

48 And the men of Ifrael turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and fote them with the edge of the fword, as well the men of every city, as the beafts, and all that came to hand: alfo they fet on fire all the cities that they came to. CHAP. XXI.

1 The people be wailing the defolation of Benjamin, 16 advise them to furprise the virgins that danced at Shilob.

NOW the men of Ifrael had fworn in Mizpeh, faying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept fore;

8 And faid, O LORD God of Ifrael, Why is this come to pafs in Ifrael, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Ifrael?

4 And it came to pafs on the morrow, that the people rofe early, and built

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284 The Benjamites bewailed.

RUTH. The virgins of Shilob furprifed.

there an altar, and offered burnt offer-Benjamin, because that the LORD had ings and peace offerings

5. And the children of Ifrael faid, Who is there among all the tribes of Ifrael that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, faying He hall furely be put to death.

6 And the children of Ifrael repeated them for Benjamin their brother,and faid, There is one tribe cut off from Ifrael this day.

7 How ball we do for wives for them that remain, feeing we have fworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

8 And they faid, What one is there of the tribes of Ifrael that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD and behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgile. ad to the affembly.

9 For the people were numbered, and, behold,there were none of the inhabitants of Jabethgilead there

made abreach in the tribes of Ifrael. 16hen the elders of the congregation faid, How fhall we do for wives for them that remain, feeing the women are deftroyed out of Benjamin?

17 And they faid, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Ifrael

18 Howbeit, we may not give them wives of our daughters; for the children of Ifrael have fworn, faying. Curfed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

19 Then they faid, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north fide of Bethel, on the east fide of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the fouth of Lebonah

20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, faying, Go and 'lie in wait in the vineyards;

21 And fee. and behold, if the daugh ters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

10 And the congregation fent thither twelve thoufand men of the valianteft, and commanded them, faying. Go and fmite the inhabitants of Jabefhgilead with the edge of the fword, with the women| 22 And it thall be, when their fathers or and the children. their brethren come unto us to complain, 11 And this is the thing that ye fhallhat we will fay unto them Be favourable do, Ye fhall utterly destroy every male, unto them for our fakes; because we reand every woman that hath lain by man ferved not to each man his wife in the 12 And they found among the inhabit-war for ye did not give unto them at ants of Jabegilead four hundred youn, this time, ta ye hould be guilty. virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan

23 And the children of Benjamin did fo, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught, and they went end returned un18 And the whole congregation fent to their inheritance, and repaired the citfome to fpeaks to the children of Benjamines, and dwelt in them that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them

14 And Benjamin came again at that time; andthey gavethem wives which they had faved alive of the women of Jabegilead and yet so they fufficed them not. 15 And the people repented them for

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24 And the children of Ifrael departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

25 In those days there was no king in Ifrael every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

THE BOOK OF CHAP I. 1 Elimelech driven by famine into Moab, dieth there 6 Naomi returning tome, 15 Ruth accompanieth ber

NOW it came to pafs in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to fojourn in the Country of Moab, he and his wife, and his two fons.

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and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

S And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two fons.

4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

And the name of the man was Elim- 5 And Mahlon and Chilion died alfo elech, and the name of his wife Naorai, both of them; and the woman was left and the name of his two fons Mahlon of her two fons and her husband.

Ruth's confancy to Naomi ;

Chap. ü. She gleaneth in Boaz's field. 285 call ye me Naomi, feeing the LORD hath teftified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

6 Then the arofe with her daughters in law, that he might return from the Country of Moab: for the had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had vifited his people in giving them

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CHAP. II.

22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitefs, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of 7 Wherefore be went forth out of the Muab: and they came to Bethlehem in place where he was, and her two daugh-the beginning of barley harvest. ters in law with her and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. 8 And Naomi faid unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her moth er's houfe: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

9 The LORD grant you that ye may find reft, each of you in the houfe of her hufband. Then the kiffed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept 10 And they faid unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. 11 And Naomi taid, Turn again, my daughters, Why will ye go with me? Are there yet any more fons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

14 Turn again, my daughters, go your way: for I am too old to have an hufband If fhould fay, I have hope if thould have a husband alfo to night, and thould alfo bear fons ;

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Ruth gleaneth in the field of Boaz. 4. He taketh knowledge of ber, 8 and fbeweth ber favour. 18 She returneth 10 Der mother in law.

AND Naomi had a kinfman of her hulband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

2 And Ruth the Moabitefs faid unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after bim in whofe fight i fhall find grace. And the laid unto her, Go, my daughter.

3 And he went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field beonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and faid unto the reapers, 1 he LORD be with you. And they an13 would ye tarry for them till they fwered him, The LORD blefs thee. were grown Would ye ftay for them 5 Then faid Boaz unto his fervant that from having husband. Nay, my daugh-was fet over the reapers, Whole damfel ters; for it grieveth me much for yours this? fakes, that the hand of the LORD is gone 6. And the fervant that was fet over the out against me. reapers antwered and faid, It is the Moabit fh damfel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab

And they lifted up their voice, and wept agam and Orpah killed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

13 And the faid. Behold, thy fifter in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods return thou after thy fifter in law.

16 And Ruth faid, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goeft, I will go; and where thou lodgett. I will lodge thy people ball be my people, and thy God my God:

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17 Where thou dieft, will I die, and there will be buried: the LORD do fo to me, and more alfo, if aught but death part thee and me.

18 When the faw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then the left fpeaking unto her.

19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pafs, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they faid, Is this Naomi ?

7 And the faid, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the eaves to the came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that the tarried a little in the house.

8¶hen faid Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide bere faft by my maidens:

9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap.and go thou after them: Have

not charged the young men that they fhall not touch thee? And when thou art athirft, go unto the veffels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

10 Then the fell on her face, and bowed herfelf to the ground, and faid unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou thouldeft take knowledge of me, feeing I am a stranger?

11 And Boaz anfvered and faid unto her, It hath fully been thewed me all that thou haft done unto thy mother in law 20 And he faid unto them, Call me fince the death of thine hufband and not Naomi, call me Mara: For the Al-bow thou haft left thy father and thy mighty hath dealt very bitterly with me mother, and the land of thy nativity, and 21 I went out full, and the LORD hath art come unto a people which thou knewbrought me home again empty: Why then left not heretofore.

236 Boax's kindness to Ruth,

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12 The LORD recompenfe thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Ifrael, under whofe wings! thou art come to trust.

Naomi's inftruction to ber. hold. herwinnoweth barley tonight in the threshing floor

3 Wah thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make nut thyself known unto the man, until he thall jhave done eating and drinking. 4 And it bail be when he lieth down,

13 Then the faid, Let me find favour in thy fight, my lord for that thou haft comforted me, and for that thou hast Spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine that thou shalt mark the place where he thall ie, and thou shalt goin, and uncov, handmaidens. 14 And Boaz faid unto her, At mealjer his feet, and lay thee down; and he time come thou hither, and eat of the wilt tell thee what thou fait do. bread, and dip thy morfel in the vinegar. And the fat befide the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and the did eat, and was fufficed, and left.

15 And when the was rifen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men,laying, Let her glean even among the heaves,and reproach her not :

16 And let fail alfo some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them that the may glean them, and rebuke her not. 17 So the gleaned in the field until even and beat out that the had gleaned it was about an ephah of barley.

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5 And the faid unto her, All that thou fayeft unto me I will do.

And the went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her

7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to ite down at the end of the heap of corn: and the came foftly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down

8 And it came to pafs at midnight, that the man was afraid,and turned himfelf: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet. 9 And he faid, Who art thou? And the 18. And the took it up, and went into anfwered, I am Ruth thine handmaid : the city and her mother in law faw what fpread therefore thy fkirt over thine hand, fhe had gleaned and the brought forth.maid; for thou art a near kiniman. and gave to her that she had referved after the was fufficed.

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19 And her mother in law faid unto her, Where halt thou gleaned today and, Where wroughteft thou? Bleffed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And the thewed her mother in law with whom he had wrought, and faid, The man's name with whom I wrought today

is Boaz.

20 And Naomi faid unto her daughter in law, Bleffed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi faid unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

10 And he fald, Bleffed be thou of the LORD,my daughter for thou haft thewed more kindnefs in the latter end thaa at the beginning,inafmuch as thou followedit not young men whether poor or rich.

11 And now, my daughter, fear not : I will do to thee all that thou requiret: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

12 And now it is true that I am thy near kiniman: howbeit, there is a kinfman nearer than I

13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will performimio thee the part of a kinfman, well; let him do the kinfman's part: but if he will not do 21 And Ruth the Moabitefs faid, He the part of a kinfman to thee, then will Ido faid unto me alfo, Thou thalt keep falt the part of a kiniman to thee, as the LORD by my young men, until they have end-liveth. lie down until the morning, ed all my harvest.

22 And Naomi faid unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.

23 So he kept faft by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harveft and of wheat harveit; and dwelt with her mother in law

CHAP. III.

14 And the lay at his feet until the morning and the rofe up before one could know another. And he faid, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.

15 Alfo he faid, Bring the veil thatbou haft upon thee, and hold it. And when the held it, he measured fix meajures of barley, and laid it on her: and the went into the city.

16 And when the came to her mother 1 By Naomi's infruction, Ruth lieth at in law, the faid, Who are thou, my daughBoaz's feet. & Boaz acknowledgetbter? And the told her all that the man had done to her. the right of a kinfman. 17 And the faid, Thefe fix measures of THEN Naomi her mother in law faid unto her, My daughter, fhall I not feek barley gave he me; for he faid to me, reft for thee, that it may be well with thee? Go not empty unto thy mother in law. 18 Then faid the, Sit ftill, my daughter, And now, Is not Boaz of our kinΕστ dred, with whofe maidens thou waft? Be- until thou know how the matter will fall':

Brax marrieth Ruth,

Chap. i. Elkanah and his two wires. 237

for the man will not be in reft, until he on's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. have finithed the thing this day.

CHAP. IV.

1 Boaz cailerb into judgment the next kingman. He refusing the redemption, 10 Boaz marrieb Ruth.

THEN went Boaz up to the gate, and fat him down there: and, behold, the kinfman of whom Boaz fpake, came by: unto whom he faid, Ho, fuch a one! turn afide, fit down here. And he turned afide, and fat down.

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and faid, Sit ye down here. And they fat down.

S And he said unto the kiufman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, felleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:

4 And I thought to advertise thee,say. ing, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for ther is none to redeem beside thee; and I am after thee. And he faid, I will redeem it.

5 Then faid Boaz What day thou buyeft the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy is alfo of Ruth the Moabites, the wife of the dead,to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

6 And the kinfman faid, I cannot redeem for myfelf, left, I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyfelf; for I cannot redeem it.

7 Now this was ibe manner in former time in Ifrael, concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his fhoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a teftimony in Ifrael.

& Therefore the kinfman faid unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew oft his fhoe. 9 And Boaz faid unto the elders, and

10 ¶ Moreover, Ruth the Moabitefs, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place : ye are witneffes this day

11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, faid, We are witneffes. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine houfe like Rachei and like Leah, which two did build the house of lfrael: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Jurdah, of the feed which the LORD thall give thee of this young woman.

18 So Boaz took Ruth, and he was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and the bare a fon.

14 And the woman faid unto Naomi, Bleffed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinfman, that his name may be famous in Ifrael.

15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourither of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth thee,which is better to thee than fev. en fons, hath borne him.

16 And Naomi took the child,and laid it in her bofom, and became nurfe unto it.

17 And the women herneighbours gaveit a name, faving, There is a fon born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jeffe, the father of David.

18 Now thefe are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

20 And Amminadab begat Nahon, and Nahfhon begat Salmon,

21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse be

uno all the people, Ye are witneffes
this day, that I have bought all that we
Elimelech's, and all that was Chili-gat David.

THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL,

OTHERWISE CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS.

CHAP. I.

nah had children, but Hannah had ne

1 Elkanah and bis two wives. 9 Han-children.

nab's prayer. 19 Samuel is born, 24 3 And this man went up out of his city and prefented to the Lord. yearly to worship and to facrifice unto NOW there was a certain man of the LORD of hotts in Shiloh. And the Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, two fons of Eli, Hophini and Phinehas, and his name was Elkanah, the fon the priests of the LORD, were there of Jeroham the fon of Elihu, the fon of 4 And when the time was that ElkaTohu, the fon of Zuph, an Ephrathite: nah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, And he had two wives; the name and to all her fons and her daughters, of the one was Hannah, and the name portions : of the other Peninah: and Penin

5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion

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