Judges 19:1
At that time Israel didn't have a king. A Levite who was living in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim married a concubine-wife from Bethlehem in Judah.
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Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them to live in the east, well away from Isaac.
Joshua 24:30They buried him in Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash, the land he had been allocated.
Judges 3:27When he got there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites joined him. They went down from the hills, with Ehud leading them.
Judges 17:1A man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
Judges 17:7One young man, a Levite from the tribe of Judah had been living in Bethlehem in Judah,
Judges 18:1At that time Israel didn't have a king. The tribe of Dan was looking for territory where they could live, because up until then they hadn't gained possession of the land granted to them among the tribes of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Judges 19:1
The three remaining chapters of this book contain a most tragical story of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, patronised by the tribe of Benjamin, for which that tribe was severely chastised and almost entirely cut off by the rest of the tribes. This seems to have been done not long after the death of Joshua, for it was when there was no king, no judge, in Israel ( ver. 1 , and ch. xxi. 25 ), and Phinehas was then high priest, ch. xx. 28 . These particular iniquities, the Danites' idolatry, and the Benjamites'… Read the whole commentary →