Judges 20:5

And the owners of Gibeah rose up against me, and beset the house, for my sake, by night,—me, they thought to slay, and, my concubine, they so humbled, that she died.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

In Context

4And the Levite, husband of the woman that was cut in pieces, responded and said,—Into Gibeah that pertaineth to Benjamin, I entered, I and my concubine, to tarry the night.

6So I laid hold on my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel,—because they had wrought lewdness and impiety, in Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:24Do not make yourselves unclean in any of these things,—For in all these things, have the nations made themselves unclean, whom, I, am sending out from before you.

Joshua 7:15and it shall be, that—He that is seized with the devoted thing, shall be burned with fire, he and all that he hath,—because he hath transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he hath wrought impiety in Israel.

Judges 19:25But the men would not hearken unto him, so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth unto them, outside,—and they knew, her, and abused her all the night, until the morning, and let her go at the uprisings of the dawn.

Ezekiel 22:10A father’s shame hath been uncovered in thee, Her that was unclean in her removal, have they humbled 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 →

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