Positivity Successor - Episode 229 - Positivity Successor (Judges 20-21)

Episode Date: February 7, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This schedule Monday through Sunday and cleaning holidays every season, every year, according to leap year. Thanks for tuning to the live channel, God bless. Hey, man. Have positive. Welcome to positivity successor episode 229. Tune on with the Bible.
Starting point is 00:00:22 Let's get into it. Israelites fight the Benjamin nights, 20. Then all the Israelites from Dan to a show. Bairshaba, and from the land of Gilead came out as one man, assembled before the Lord and Mispah. The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of the people of God with 400,000 soldiers, armed with swords. The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites
Starting point is 00:01:03 had gone up to Mizba. Then the Israelites said, Tell us how this awful thing happened. So the Levite, the husband of the murder, murdered woman said, I and my concubine came to Ghibia and Benjamin to spend the night. During the night, the men of Gubia came after me
Starting point is 00:01:29 and surrounded my house. Surrounded the house. intending to kill me. They raised my concubine in Jedi. I took my concubine cur into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel's inheritance because they committed this lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Now all you Israelites speak up and give your verdict. All the people rose has one man saying no of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house. But now this is what we'll do to Gabia. We'll go up against it as the lot directs. We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Visio. and a hundred from a thousand and a thousand from 10,000 to get provisions for the army.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Then when the army arrives at Gabia and Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for all this feelingness. And done in Israel. So all the men of Israel got together and United has one man against the city. The tribes of Azero sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin saying, What about this awful crime that was committed among you? Now surrender those wicked men of Ghibia so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.
Starting point is 00:03:27 But the Benjamin Knights would not list. to their fellow Israelites. From their towns, they came together at Gabia to fight against the Israelites. At once the Benjamin Knights mobilized 26,000 swordmen swordsmen from their towns, in addition to 700 chosen men
Starting point is 00:03:54 from those living in Gabia, among all those soldiers that were 700, chosen men who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone out of hair and not miss. Israel apart from Benjamin Mustard from 400,000 swordsmen, all of them fighting men. The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, who of us shall go first to fight against the Benjamin. The Lord replied, Judah shall go first. The next morning, the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gabi.
Starting point is 00:04:42 The men of Israel went out to fight the Benjaminites and took up battle positions against them at Gabi. The Benjaminites came out of Gabi and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day. But the men of Israel encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves. The first day, the Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said, shall we go up again to battle against the Benjamin's our brothers? The Lord answered, go up against them. Then the Israelites drew near the Benjamin the second day. This time when the Benjaminites came out from Ghibia to oppose them,
Starting point is 00:05:50 they cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all them armed with swords. Then the Israelites, all the people went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fastened that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord. These are lights inquired of the Lord. In those days of the Ark of the Covenant of God was there, with Phineas, son of Elisor and the son of Aaron,
Starting point is 00:06:28 ministering before it. They asked, shall we go up again to battle with Benjamin, our brother, or not? The Lord responded, Go for tomorrow, I'll give them into your hands.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Then Israel set an ambush around Gabia. They went up against the Benjaminites, and the third day and took up positions against Gabia. as they had done before the Benjaminites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties as before, so that about 30 men fell in the open field and on the roads, the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibbya while the Benjaminites were saying, We are defeating them as before.
Starting point is 00:07:27 The Israelites were saying, let's retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads. All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Bal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gabia. Then 10,000 of Israel's finest men made a frontal attack on Gabia. fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was. The Lord
Starting point is 00:08:02 defeated Benjamin before Israel and on that day, the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjaminites all armed with swords. Then the Benjaminites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of
Starting point is 00:08:18 Israel had given way before Benjamin because they relied on the ambush and they had set near Ghibia. The men who had been ambushed and made a sudden dash and Ghibia spread out and put the whole city to the sword. The men of Israel had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the sea. And then the Battle of Israel, the men of Israel, the men of Israel, the men of, Israel would turn into in the battle.
Starting point is 00:08:58 The Benjaminites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel about 30. And they said, we are defeating them as in the first battle. But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the benjamites turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky. then the men of Israel turned on them and the men of his Benjamin were terrified because they realized that disaster came upon them
Starting point is 00:09:34 so they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the desert but they could not escape the battle and the men of Israel who came out of the towns cut them down there they surrounded the Benjian Benjaminites chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gabi on the east.
Starting point is 00:10:00 18,000 Benjamites fell. All of them valiant fighters as they turned and fled toward the desert to the rock of Ramon. The Israelites caught down 5,000 men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as far. Giddham and struck down 2,000 more. On that day, 25,000 met Benjamin's swordsmen fell. All of them valiant fighters, but 600 men turned and fled into the desert to the rock to the rock of Riemann, where they stayed four months. The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to.
Starting point is 00:10:52 the sword, according to the animals and everything else, they found. All the towns that came across, they sat on fire. So that's where we're going to stop. We'll put back up with Wives for the Benjamin's, Benjamin's 21. Life in Bible Times. The Sling. A Sling had two cords tied to a small pad. A smooth stone was put into the pad
Starting point is 00:11:25 And swung around and around When one string was released The stone flew very fast Toward its target Shepherds used slings to protect their flocks Many armies had units of men Whose main weapon was a sling David was the most
Starting point is 00:11:46 The world's most famous user of a sling You can read about him in 1 Samuel 17, page 321. Thanks for tuning to another interesting ballroom. We're going to look back at the reflection of yourself in the mirror. It's all the beautiful and handsome people out there because you're a work in progress and we'll get to where you want to life. Believe that.
Starting point is 00:12:12 Thanks for tuning to another episode, Positive Your Successor. Thanks to tune into our episode, Another Interesting Bowler. God bless, amen. Tune tomorrow for the next episode of Positiveity Successor. God bless, amen. Have a positive day.

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