Judges 20:5
And behold the men of that city in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4Answered: I came into Gabaa of Benjamin with my wife, and there I lodged:
Cross References
Leviticus 18:24Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
Joshua 7:15And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.
Judges 19:25They would not be satisfied with his words; which the man seeing, brought out his concubine to them, and abandoned her to their wickedness: and when they had abused her all the night, they let her go in the morning.
Ezekiel 22:10They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.
Matthew Henry on Judges 20:2-12
The Combination Against Gibeah. ( b. c. 1410.) 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh. 2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of… Read the whole commentary →