Not sure if there is any meaning to this connection although I find it very interesting.
I won't post the entire three chapters here. You can read them at Blue Letter Bible if you don't have a bible or have it with you.
In Judges 19-21, a Levite traveling with his concubine stopped in Gibeah, a city of the Tribe of Benjamin, for the night. It was a dangerous place and a Gibeahnite invited them into his home for the night. Some men of belial (ba-al) came and wanted him to send the man out so they could rape him (sounds a lot like what happened to sodom and gomorah with the angels) and the man refused and gave his daughter and the Levite's concubine to them to do with them what they wanted. They abused and raped the Levite's concubine and she ended up dying.
Under Yahweh's instruction and with a sorrowful heart, the children of Israel came to fight the Gibeahnites. The rest of the Tribe of Benjamin came to the aid of the Benjaminites in Gibeah. All the women were killed and nearly all of the tribe of Benjamin were wiped out. They found women from another tribe for the surviving Benjaminites to marry so the tribe would not be wiped out. Yahweh allowed the near destruction of the Tribe of Benjamin due to sodomy.
Later Israel demanded a king even though they had Yahweh as their king. Yahweh gave them King Saul which was from the Tribe of Benjamin even though in Genesis 49:8-10, Judah was to reign until the Messiah came. It is obvious Saul was a placeholder by Yahweh until King David was old enough to become king because of the insistence for a king by Israel.
The most interesting part is that King Saul was from Gibeah. I'm quite sure that what happened in Judges 19-21 with the Tribe of Benjamin almost being wiped out and Saul, a Benjaminite, from Gibeah becoming king are related although Yahweh has not shown me any more on this yet. Gibeah (and the entire Tribe of Benajmin nearly being wiped out because of what happened in Gibeah) almost being wiped out. Saul, from the Tribe of Benjamin, being named king even though Judah was to rule, and Saul being from Gibeah is very interesting puzzle to figure out. (FYI: King David was from Judah)
Genesis 49
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Thoughts?
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