Focused Passage

Judges 19:25-26

Gibeah's Outrage: Covenant Hospitality Collapses into Horror

Judges 19 descends from attempted household reconciliation into national moral horror, showing that when there is no righteous covenant rule, Israelite society can become unsafe for the vulnerable, brutal toward women, and numb to the LORD's holy standards.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

25But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

26Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

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Verse 25

Cross-references

Judges 20:5Classic cross-references Ephesians 4:19Classic cross-references

Original words

But the menהָאִישׁ֙H376Article | Noun - masculine singularwouldאָב֤וּH14Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural. . .הָאֲנָשִׁים֙H582Article | Noun - masculine pluralnotוְלֹֽא־H3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particlelisten to himלִשְׁמֹ֣עַֽH8085Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructSo [the Levite]ל֔וֹPreposition | third person masculine singulartookוַיַּחֲזֵ֤קH2388Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularhis concubineבְּפִ֣ילַגְשׁ֔וֹH6370Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singularand sent herוַיֹּצֵ֥אH3318Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularoutsideהַח֑וּץH2351Article | Noun - masculine singularto themאֲלֵיהֶ֖םH413Preposition | third person masculine pluraland they rapedוַיֵּדְע֣וּH3045Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralherא֠וֹתָהּH853Direct object marker | third person feminine singularand abusedוַיִּֽתְעַלְּלוּ־H5953Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralherבָ֤הּPreposition | third person feminine singularthroughoutכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructthe nightהַלַּ֙יְלָה֙H3915Article | Noun - masculine singular-עַד־H5704Preposition-הַבֹּ֔קֶרH1242Article | Noun - masculine singularand at dawnבַּעֲלוֹתH5927Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct. . .הַשָּֽׁחַר׃H7837Article | Noun - masculine singularthey let her goוַֽיְשַׁלְּח֖וּהָH7971Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person feminine singular

Verse 26

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Early that morningלִפְנ֣וֹתH6437Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct. . .הַבֹּ֑קֶרH1242Article | Noun - masculine singularthe womanהָאִשָּׁ֖הH802Article | Noun - feminine singularwent backוַתָּבֹ֥אH935Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singularto the houseבֵּית־H1004Noun - masculine singular construct-הָאִ֛ישׁH376Article | Noun - masculine singularwhereאֲשֶׁר־H834Pronoun - relativeher master was stayingאֲדוֹנֶ֥יהָH113Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singularcollapsedוַתִּפֹּ֞לH5307Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singularat the doorwayפֶּ֧תַחH6607Noun - masculine singular constructand lay there untilעַד־H5704Prepositionit was lightהָאֽוֹר׃H216Article | Noun - common singular. . .שָּׁ֖םH8033Adverb

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