The Harlot by The Side of The Road: Forbidden Tales of The Bible

Author:Jonathan Kirsch
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307567635
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-07-07T05:01:11+00:00

—JUDGES 10.6-8

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying: “We have sinned against Thee, in that we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.”

—JUDGES 10.10

“And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord,” the old man continued, “saying: ‘We have sinned against Thee, we have forsaken our God, and we have served the Baalim.’”

“Yes, yes,” Jephthah said dryly. He had already heard about the advance guard of the Ammonites that had crossed the Jordan River to probe the defenses of Canaan. He had already heard of the sorry showing by the ragtag militia of Israelites when they encountered the professional soldiery of the Ammonite king. The old soldiers of Mizpah had laughed among themselves at the militiamen who had broken and run, the rich men who had packed themselves and their finery out of Gilead at the first word of the approaching army. Now the trembling lords and their soundly thrashed army were huddling together in their tents within sight of Mizpah.

“I am sorry that the Ammonites have scared you out of your houses,” Jephthah continued, “but what does all this have to do with me?”

The old man frowned briefly at Jephthah and then continued to shout out his grandiloquent words.

“And the Lord said unto the children of Israel: ‘Did I not save you from the Egyptians and the Amalekites and the Philistines? Yet ye have forsaken Me and served other gods, and so I will save you no more! Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen—let them save you in the time of your distress!’”

Seila studied the old man’s face, now contorted with anger, and she felt suddenly giddy. If the pious old graybeard who had cheated

And the Lord said unto the children of Israel: “Did not I save you from the Egyptians, and from … the children of Ammon, and from the ‘Philistines? The … Amalekites … did oppress you; and ye cried unto Me, and I saved you out of their hand. Yet ye have forsaken Me, and served other gods; wherefore I will save you no more. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”

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