* and they went.
   It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honourable
   way to the women they had thus violently carried off, and we
   may rest assured, that they took them to an inheritance more
   than equal to their own.  But this transaction, as well as the
   indiscriminate massacre of the people of Jabesh-gilead, as Dr.
   Gray observes, was certainly stamped with injustice and
   cruelty; and must be condemned on those principles which the
   Scriptures elsewhere furnish.

 * repaired.
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