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A Levite’s Concubine Raped and Killed. 19 Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite [ a]staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 But his concubine [ b]found him repugnant, and she left him and went to her ...
New King James Version. The Levite’s Concubine. 19 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s ...
A Levite and His Concubine. 19 In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents’ home in Bethlehem, Judah.
Whether locked out or simply ignored, she dies on the doorstep (Judges 19:25–26). The Levite, portrayed here as oddly cold towards his concubine, opens the door in the morning and demands she get moving. She does not answer, having died from her injuries. The Levite picks up her corpse and puts it on a donkey.
- When The People Abandon God, Most Leaders Will Do So as well. Judges 19:1(A).
- The Family Order Will Break down. Judges 19:1(B)-2.
- God’s Places of Refuge Will Be Limited For Those in need. Judges 19:3-13.
- Most People Will Become Self-Centered and inhospitable. Judges 19:14-21.
- Same Sex Acts Will Become rampant. Judges 19:22-24.
- Sexual Violence Will Become rampant. Judges 19:25-26.
- Society Will Become Numb to Its sins. Judges 19:27-30.
The absence of any national godly leaders. The atrocity in Gibeah begins with the root cause of the problem. There was no leader in Israel to exhort the people to follow God’s standards for right a...The importance of godly leaders in restraining sin. Satan’s goal has always been to break down authority through rebellion. His goal is to create chaos and misery by causing people to turn away fro...The Levite’s decision to take a concubine and the unrest that existed in his family. Without godly leaders, each aspect of Jewish society descended into sin. This began with the family as symbolize...Having more than one wife results in only misery and sorrow. Some claim that the Bible endorses multiple wives because people like the Levite had multiple wives. In fact, the Bible shows that the d...The Levite’s five-day delay in retrieving his concubine. As a long prelude to the atrocity in Gibeah, God reveals how the unwillingness of the father-in-law to let go of his daughter caused the Lev...The failure of the Jews to seize Jerusalem for His people. Having left late in the day, the most logical place to stay was in Jerusalem. But God’s intended place of refuge was not available because...When unrepentant sin runs unchecked, God will lift His hedge of protection. God can be a shield to those who take refuge in Him (Prov. 30:5; 2 Sam. 22:31). Yet, when a nation turns from Him, His sh...The failure of all but one of the Benjamites to grant the Levite’s family lodging. At Gibeah, the Levite and his concubine were unable to find anyone to give them lodging. Only one man eventually s...
The Benjamites’ attempt to rape and sodomize the Levite. After refusing to give the Levite and his concubine shelter, the people of Gibeah committed the even worse sin of trying to rape and sodomiz...God’s prohibition against same sex acts. Just as it was during the times of Sodom and Gomorrah and the time of the Judges, society today has come to embrace same sex acts as a civil right. Yet, no...Examples of same sex acts punished in the Old Testament. Unlike other sins, God also punished entire populations for same sex acts. There are two examples of this in the Old Testament. First, throu...The New Testament prohibition against same sex acts. In the New Testament, Paul affirmed that same sex acts remain prohibited under God’s Law, even after Jesus’ death: “[A]nd in the same way also t...The Benjamites’ gang rape of the Levite’s concubine. After the men’s attempts to sodomize the Levite were rebuffed, they seized the man’s concubine and savagely gang raped her and brutalized her th...The New Testament warnings against all sins of the flesh. God did not single out same sex acts as the only prohibited act today. He instead bars all sexual acts of the flesh outside of a holy marri...The Levite’s delivery of his concubine’s body parts throughout Israel. This atrocity concludes with the Levite’s gruesome act of cutting his concubine into 12 parts and sending the parts throughout...
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This chapter gives an account of a sad affair of a Levite and his concubine, and of the bad consequence of it, how that she played the whore, and went away from him to her father's house, whither he followed her, and where he was kindly entertained by her father several days, Jud 19:1-9 and then set out on his journey to his own country; and ...
