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So six hundred Danites left Zorah and Eshtaol ready for war.

The five spies went into the house and took the idol, the holy vest, the household idols, and the statue. The priest and the six hundred men armed for war stood by the entrance gate.

They answered, "Be quiet! Don't say a word. Come with us and be our father and priest. Is it better for you to be a priest for one man's house or for a tribe and family group in Israel?"

Then the Danites went on their way. Micah knew they were too strong for him, so he turned and went back home.

They changed the name of Laish to Dan, naming it for their ancestor Dan, one of the sons of Israel.

The people of Dan set up the idols in the city of Dan. Jonathan son of Gershom, Moses' son, and his sons served as priests for the tribe of Dan until the land was captured.

but she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah and stayed there for four months.

The father-in-law, the young woman's father, asked him to stay. So he stayed for three days and ate, drank, and slept there.

We already have straw and food for our donkeys and bread and wine for me, the young woman, and my servant. We don't need anything."

That way we will choose ten men from every hundred men from all the tribes of Israel, and we will choose a hundred men from every thousand, and a thousand men from every ten thousand. These will find supplies for the army. Then the army will go to the city of Gibeah of Benjamin to repay them for the terrible thing they have done in Israel."

The Israelites, except for the Benjaminites, gathered 400,000 soldiers with swords.

They went to fight against the Benjaminites at Gibeah on the third day, getting into position for battle as they had done before.

But 600 Benjaminites ran to the rock of Rimmon in the desert, where they stayed for four months.

The Israelites felt sorry for their relatives, the Benjaminites. They said, "Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

The people of Israel felt sorry for the Benjaminites because the Lord had separated the tribes of Israel.

The elders of the Israelites said, "The women of Benjamin have been killed. Where can we get wives for the men of Benjamin who are still alive?

Watch for the young women from Shiloh to come out to join the dancing. Then run out from the vineyards and take one of the young Shiloh women and return to the land of Benjamin.

If their fathers or brothers come to us and complain, we will say: ‘Be kind to the men of Benjamin. We did not get wives for Benjamin during the war, and you did not give the women to the men from Benjamin. So you are not guilty.'"

should you wait until they were grown into men? Should you live for so many years without husbands? Don't do that, my daughters. My life is much too sad for you to share, because the Lord has been against me!"

Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don't go to gather grain for yourself in another field. Don't even leave this field at all, but continue following closely behind my women workers.