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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JDG 19:1 THE CRIME OF GIBEAH: AN HISTORICAL POEM.
(The date is uncertain when the crime was committed.—F.F.)

It was also in the period when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite resided at the back of Mount Ephraim, and he married a woman of Bethlehem-Judah, as a second wife,
RF JDG 19:2 but this second wife deserted him and went from him to the house of her father at Bethlehem-Judah, and was there for a period of four months.
RF JDG 19:3 Then her husband arose and went after her to speak to her heart, to cause her to return and attend him. So he mounted his ass and went to the house of her father, and saw the girl's father, who was glad to meet him.
RF JDG 19:4 And his father-in-law, the father of the girl, comforted him, and he stayed with him three days, and they ate and drank, and rested there.
RF JDG 19:5 When the fourth day came, they got up in the morning, and he arose to depart, but the father of the girl, his father-in-law, said, "Refresh your heart with a little bread, and go after that."
RF JDG 19:6 So he stayed and both of them ate together and drank. Then the father of the girl said to the man, "Be content now, and stay and let your heart enjoy itself."
RF JDG 19:7 But the man arose to go. However his father-in-law pressed him, so he sat down and stayed there.
RF JDG 19:8 However he got up on the morning of the fifth day to go, when the father of the girl said, "Comfort your heart, and delay till the turn of the day." So they ate and drank.
RF JDG 19:9 Then the man arose to go, he and his wife, and servant, but his father-in-law, the father of the girl, said, "See now the day is stretching towards dusk. Lodge now here pleasantly to-day. Rest, then, and enliven your heart, and get up to-morrow morning for your journey and go to your own home."
RF JDG 19:10 The man, however, was unwilling to stay, but arose and went, and arrived opposite to Jebus—that is Jerusalem,—where his saddled asses broke down with him and his wife,
RF JDG 19:11 when they were near Jebus, and the day was nearly ended, so the attendant said to his master, "Let us go, now, and turn into this city of the Jebusi, and lodge there."
RF JDG 19:12 But his master said to him, "I will not turn to a town of foreigners where there are none of the Children of Israel. Let us pass over to Gibeah.
RF JDG 19:13 "Therefore," he added to the lad, "come, let us enter one of these places, for we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Rama."
RF JDG 19:14 So they passed on and marched and came to the south side of Gibeah of Benjamin,
RF JDG 19:15 and they turned towards it to go and lodge in Gibeah, and went and sat in the square of the town, but no person invited them to his house to lodge.
RF JDG 19:16 At last an old man came from his work in the fields, at dusk—a man from Mount Ephraim, who was a resident in Gibeah—but his wife was a native of Benjamin.
RF JDG 19:17 Raising his eyes he saw the man at a distance in the square of the town, and the old man said, "Where do you go? and whence do you come?"
RF JDG 19:18 And they replied to him, "We are crossing from Bethlehem-Judah to the back of Mount Ephraim, from where I am, but I came to Bethlehem-Judah, and I am returning to the House of the EVER-LIVING. But no man has invited me to his house,
RF JDG 19:19 although we have straw and provender for our asses, and food and wine for myself and my waiting woman and lad. We want nothing at all except shelter."
RF JDG 19:20 Then the old man said; "Peace be with you! Bring your asses with you to me! Only do not lodge in the street."
RF JDG 19:21 So he took them to his house, and foddered the asses, and washed their feet, and they ate and drank.
RF JDG 19:22 They were cheering their hearts when the men of the town, sons of Belial, surrounded the house, knocked at the doors, and said to the master of the house, the old man, "Bring out the man who has come to your house, that we may outrage him!"
RF JDG 19:23 But the master of the house went out to them, and said, "No, my friends! Do not inflict wrong upon me, I pray,—since this man has come to my house, do not commit this wickedness!
RF JDG 19:24 I have two maiden daughters, and his servant-wife, I will bring them out to you, and you can outrage them,—and do to them what pleases you! But to this man do not such a loathsome thing."
RF JDG 19:25 But the men would not listen to him; so the man seized his servant-wife, and sent her out to them outside, and they outraged her, and maltreated her all the night, until daybreak, but went away from her at the departure of darkness.
RF JDG 19:26 Then at the arrival of dawn the woman came,—and fell before the doorway of the man's house, where she had been outraged until daylight.
RF JDG 19:27 Her master also arose at daybreak and opened the doors of the house, and came out to proceed on his journey and saw the woman, his servant-wife, fallen before the house with her hands upon the doorstep,
RF JDG 19:28 and he said to her, "Get up and come along!" But she spoke not, Then he brought the ass and lifted the woman up, and went to his place,
RF JDG 19:29 and entered his house, where he took a knife, and seized his servant-wife and divided her corpse into twelve pieces and sent to all the countries of Israel,
RF JDG 19:30 and all who saw it said, "There has not been, nor has there been seen anything like this from the time the Children of Israel came up from the Mitzeraim until this day! Apply yourselves to it,—consult, and speak!"




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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