From Judges 16 - 21:
1. I don't understand the beginning of Chapter 17. It seems Micah took his mother's silver, and she uttered a curse after finding it gone. Then when he told her it was him that took it, she blessed him. Then she gave the money back to him to make an idol, but he gave it back to her. So she finally went out and had the idol forged by a silversmith. Why all of the complications?
2. It appears that the Danites had their own gods and priests, different from what other Israelites worshiped.
3. Although this has nothing to do with the passage read, it drives me - an English major - nuts. Why is worshiped spelled with only one 'p' and shipped spelled with two? The standard rule would make the word have a long 'i' sound. I suspect that there were a group of uneducated people who were really into worshiping, and kept spelling it wrong, so it stuck. I hate the way English usually has about five exceptions to any rule. For instance, the long 'o' sound - how is it spelled? Take words like though, so, blow and toe. And yet we complain about how foreigners need to learn English. Taht is jsut worng!
4. The fact that they had no king and everyone did as they saw fit is mentioned multiple times, in 17:6, 18:1, 19:1 and 21:25. The next item illustrates this fact.
5. The story in Chapter 19 is one of the most bizarre and horrifying stories the bible has to tell. I don't understand why it ended up the way it did. First of all, why didn't the host use force (if necessary) to chase those evil men away? Were there that many of them? Did he have no allies around? Why would it ever enter his mind to offer his virgin daughter and / or the visitor's concubine? Why did the guest finally send his concubine out?
6. Why does it only mention that the woman fell down, but does not state that she died? Was she still alive? Other than raping her, what else did they do to her? Or did the master kill her by cutting her up later to send to all the tribes of Israel?
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