Judges 21

It is objected, on the other hand, that at almost no period had that law been observed: but the arguments on which that assertion rests are frivolous. They quote the instance of the eleven tribes binding themselves by an oath, that they would not give a wife to the Benjamites, (…

Though Samson saw a daughter of the Philistines which pleased him well, yet would he not marry her before he had his parents' consent (Judges 14:2). 4. These words of Tamar (2 Samuel 13:13), "Speak to the King" (who was her father,) "for he will not withhold you from me," show t…

The commonwealth of the Jews was a political body; of this God was the head and king; hence their historian says their government was [in non-Latin alphabet]; and when they would choose a king, God said they rejected him, who was their political head; to whom a sickle was paid y…