“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 […]

“In time, at nightfall, an old man came from his work in the field. He was from the Efrayim hills and was staying in Giv‘ah, although the residents were of Binyamin.  The old man looked up, saw the traveler in the city’s open space and said, ‘Where are you going, and where are you coming […]

“There they turned off the road to go and stay in Giv‘ah. He went in and sat down in the city’s open space, since no one had offered his home for them to spend the night.”Judges 19:15 So the Levite, his concubine and his servant are on the road heading back home. After a couple […]