Judges 19:1

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Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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  • Judg 18:1 : 1 The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.
  • Judg 17:8 : 8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house.
  • Judg 17:6 : 6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.
  • Josh 24:33 : 33 Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land.
  • Judg 21:25 : 25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.
  • 2 Sam 3:7 : 7 Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth said to Abner,“Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
  • 2 Sam 5:13 : 13 David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.
  • 2 Sam 16:22 : 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 19:5 : 5 So Joab visited the king at his home. He said,“Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not sleep with them. They remained under restriction until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
  • 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
  • Esth 2:14 : 14 In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to a separate part of the harem, to the authority of Shaashgaz the king’s eunuch who was overseeing the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king was pleased with her and she was requested by name.
  • Song 6:8-9 : 8 There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number. 9 But she is unique! My dove, my perfect one! She is the special daughter of her mother, she is the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and complimented her; the queens and concubines praised her:
  • Dan 5:3 : 3 So they brought the gold and silver vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
  • Matt 2:6 : 6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
  • Judg 17:1 : 1 Micah Makes His Own Religion There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.
  • Gen 22:24 : 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children– Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
  • Gen 25:6 : 6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.
  • Gen 35:19 : 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath(that is, Bethlehem).
  • Josh 24:30 : 30 They buried him in his allotted territory in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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  • Judg 19:2-3
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    2However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

    3her husband came after her, hoping he could convince her to return. He brought with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly.

  • Judg 17:6-9
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    6In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

    7Micah Hires a Professional There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

    8This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house.

    9Micah said to him,“Where do you come from?” He replied,“I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live.”

  • Judg 19:8-19
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    8He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said,“Get some energy. Wait until later in the day to leave!” So they ate a meal together.

    9When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him,“Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.”

    10But the man did not want to stay another night. He left and traveled as far as Jebus(that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.

    11When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late and the servant said to his master,“Come on, let’s stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.”

    12But his master said to him,“We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”

    13He said to his servant,“Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

    14So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.

    15They stopped there and decided to spend the night in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.

    16But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah.(The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)

    17When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said,“Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

    18The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.

    19We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

  • Judg 19:22-30
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    22They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house,“Send out the man who came to visit you so we can take carnal knowledge of him.”

    23The man who owned the house went outside and said to them,“No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

    24Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

    25The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. They raped her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

    26The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light.

    27When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.

    28He said to her,“Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.

    29When he got home, he took a knife, grasped his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

    30Everyone who saw the sight said,“Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since the Israelites left the land of Egypt! Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

  • Judg 20:3-6
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    3The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”

    4The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up,“I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

    5The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

    6I took hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces throughout the territory occupied by Israel, because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity in Israel.

  • Judg 18:1
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    1The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.

  • Ruth 1:1-2
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    1¶ A Family Tragedy: Famine and Death During the time of the judges there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.

    2(Now the man’s name was Elimelech, his wife was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were of the clan of Ephrath from Bethlehem in Judah.) They entered the region of Moab and settled there.

  • Judg 21:25
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    25In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

  • Exod 2:1
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    1The Birth of the Deliverer A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi.

  • Gen 38:21-22
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    21He asked the men who were there,“Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?” But they replied,“There has been no cult prostitute here.”

    22So he returned to Judah and said,“I couldn’t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said,‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”

  • Judg 11:38-39
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    38He said,“You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

    39After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin. Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.

  • Num 25:1
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    1Israel’s Sin with the Moabite Women When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.

  • Deut 22:27
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    27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

  • Judg 21:1
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    1600 Brides for 600 Brothers The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying,“Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

  • Judg 21:22
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    22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

  • Judg 17:11
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    11So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.

  • Judg 15:1
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    1Samson Versus the Philistines Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father,“I want to sleep with my bride in her bedroom!” But her father would not let him enter.

  • Judg 18:28
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    28No one came to the rescue because the city was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and occupied it.

  • Num 5:13
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    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Hos 3:4
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    4For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

  • Deut 22:23
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    23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,