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Israel mourns before a newly built altar.
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Judges 21:1-4

Grief at Bethel

A Tribe Preserved · Judges 21

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1The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, “No man among us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”

2Then the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, and they raised their voices and wept with great weeping.

3And they said, “Why, O Yahweh, God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that today one tribe should be lacking from Israel?”

4And the next day the people rose early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

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