Today we begin Judges Chapter 20. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Version, click HERE. “All the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Be’er-sheva, including Gil‘ad; the community assembled with one accord before Adonai at Mitzpah.” -Judges 20:1 In the last chapter we just got done reading what […]

“On arrival at his house, he got a knife, took hold of his concubine’s body, cut her up into twelve pieces, and sent them to all the regions of Israel.  Everyone who saw it said, ‘From the day the people of Israel came up from Egypt until now, never has such a thing happened or […]

“However, the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man took hold of his concubine and brought her out to them. They raped her and abused her all night long; only at dawn did they let her go.  At daybreak the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her […]

“Here’s my daughter, who’s a virgin, and his concubine. I’ll bring them out. Mistreat them, do what you want to them, but don’t do such a degrading thing to this man.”-Judges 19:24 Okay, so here’s an ugly truth about about the ancient Middle East we need to come to terms with. Women were considered much […]

“They were relaxing, when suddenly some men from the city, good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and began beating at the door. ‘Send out the man who came home with you!’ they demanded of the old man whose house it was. ‘We want to have sex with him!‘”-Judges 19:22 If there’s any one scene in the book […]