Judges Chapter 19

• Judges 19:1
  Judges.
• Judges 19:2
  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for hi...
• Judges 19:3
  His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.
• Judges 19:4
  Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him ...
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  His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.
• Judges 19:6
  On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart ...
• Judges 19:7
  So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let y...
• Judges 19:8
  The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.
• Judges 19:9
  He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day decli...
• Judges 19:10
  When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day ...
• Judges 19:11
  But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concu...
• Judges 19:12
  When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and ...
• Judges 19:13
  His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”
• Judges 19:14
  He said to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”
• Judges 19:15
  So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
• Judges 19:16
  They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his hous...
• Judges 19:17
  Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the m...
• Judges 19:18
  He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
• Judges 19:19
  He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Juda...
• Judges 19:20
  Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with you...
• Judges 19:21
  The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
• Judges 19:22
  So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
• Judges 19:23
  As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke...
• Judges 19:24
  The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my ...
• Judges 19:25
  Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man...
• Judges 19:26
  But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night...
• Judges 19:27
  Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.
• Judges 19:28
  Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at ...
• Judges 19:29
  He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.
• Judges 19:30
  When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout ...
• Judges 19:31
  It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt ...