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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Judges 19-21 - Benjamites Violate a Levite’s Concubine

Benjamites Violate a Levite’s Concubine

Jdg 19:1 LSB - [1] Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

Mat 19:4-6 LSB - [4] And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created [them] from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, [5] and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'? [6] "So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

1Ti 3:2 LSB - [2] An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,


Jdg 19:22 LSB - [22] They were making their hearts merry, and behold, the men of the city, certain vile fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house that we may know him."

Jdg 19:25 LSB - [25] But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought [her] out to them; and they knew her and abused her all night until morning, and they let her go at the breaking of dawn.

Hos 10:9 LSB - [9] From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; There they stand! Will not the battle against the sons of injustice overtake them in Gibeah?

 

A Battle Between Israel and Benjamin

Jdg 20:5 LSB - [5] "Then the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me; instead, they violated my concubine, and she died.

Jdg 19:22 LSB - [22] They were making their hearts merry, and behold, the men of the city, certain vile fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house that we may know him."

Jdg 19:25 LSB - [25] But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought [her] out to them; and they knew her and abused her all night until morning, and they let her go at the breaking of dawn.

Jdg 20:47 LSB - [47] But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.


A Tribe Is Cut Off


Sons of Benjamin Steal the Daughters of Shiloh

Jdg 21:12 LSB - [12] And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Jdg 21:23 LSB - [23] And the sons of Benjamin did so and carried away wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they stole away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.

 

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