Excerpt from The Book of Judges The first story of the appendix describes the founding of the sanctuary of Dan. A woman of Mt. Ephraim pos sessed a considerable quantity of silver which her son stole, but the mother forgave him the theft and turned the metal over to him. He made thereof an idol and created a sanctuary in which a wandering Levite was installed as priest Members of the tribe of Dan on their march through the land to secure a home in Northern Palestine took both idol and priest and estab lished therewith the sanctuary at Dan (18: 1 The second story, the Sin of Gibeah, is a gruesome tale of a Levite whose concubine was so outraged by the men of Gibeah that she died. He, then, severing her body, sent its pieces through Israel (19: 1 This called the people out to war against the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were defended by their fellow tribesmen of Benjamin. They were defeated and nearly all of the tribe of Benjamin was massacred, six hundred men alone escaping (chap. 2o). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.