Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 270

16-26 THE BOOK OF THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES. 18--—2 26 28 between the pillars. Then Samson said to the warcler who had him by Come near to me, and place me bythe pillars upon which the building is supported, that I may rest myself on them. Now the building was full of men

and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women looking at the sport of Samson. Then Samson prayed to the EVER- Lrvmc, and said, ‘ EvER·L1V1NG GOD, remember me

now, and strengthen me this time also, my GOD, and I shall be at once revenged for my two eyes, upon the Then Samson grasped the two central pillars upon which the building was supported,——one with his right and the other with his left hand,-—-and Samson exclaimed, ‘ Perish my life with the Philistines} and bent with might, and the building fell upon the lords, and upon all the people who were in it,—·so the dead whom he killed with his death were more than he had killed in his life. His relatives and all the house of

his father descended, however, and carried him away, and buried him between Tzarah and Ashtaol in the tomb of Manoh his father. But he judged in Israel twenty years. ILLUSTRATIONS OF S ANARCHY. (From 1406 to rrzo B.c.) mike!] sub the @aztit2s, sub his ®2rapl3. kt §ist¤rirai §·¤zm. 17 There was a man in Mount 2 Ephraim, named Mikah, who said Those eleven hun- dred of silver which were taken from you, and about which you cursed and swore in my hearing,—I have your And his mother The Evan-Lrvmc bless you, my son l' So he returned the eleven hundred

of money to his mother, when she I had consecrated that money to the EVER-LIVING on ac- count of my son, to make an image, and a shrine; but now I will give it of the money, and gave it to a silver- smith, who made an image and a shrine, and it was in the house of Mikah, and Mikah made it a House of gods, and made an ephod and a teraph, and also set aside one of his sons, and he was the priest to it. Rnrnarn. There was no king in Israel in those days ;-— Each did what was right in his own eyes. There was also a youth of Bethle—

hem·]udah, in the clan of judah, but he was a Levite, who resided there. And the man went from the village of Bethlehem—]udah to settle where he might find a home, and he came to Mount Ephraim, to the house of Mikah, in making his journey, when From where do And he answered "I am a Levite from Bethlehemjudah, and I am going to settle in Ashur.' Stay

with me, as a father and a priest,and I will pay you ten silvers a year, and a suit of robes, and your board. So the Levite consented, and the

Levite was content to settle with the man Mikah, and the youth became to him as one of his sons. Mikah also appointed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and lived in the house of Mikah. Con— Now I know that the Evan-Lrvmo will prosper me, because I have got a Levite for a priest? Rsrnarn. There was no king in Israel in those days ;— Each did what was right in his own eyes. IO II I2

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At that time the tribe of Dan was

seeking itself a district for settle- ment, for it had not obtained until that period a district amongst the tribes of Israel. The Danites con- 2 sequently sent five men from their clan, all of them bold fellows, from Tzarah and Ashtaol, to examine the country and search it, and said to Go, search the country? He, however, returned it to his I So they came to Mount Ephraim,

mother. But he took two hundred to the house of Mikah, and lodged 270