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not in the street.
21
So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they
washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
22
Now
as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of
Belial, beset the house round about,
and
beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the
old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
23
And
the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren,
nay,
I pray you, do not
so
wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
24
Behold,
here is
my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble
ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
25
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto
them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began
to spring, they let her go.
26
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the
door of the man’s house where her lord
was,
till it was light.
27
And 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
was fallen down
at
the door of the house, and her hands
were
upon the threshold.
28
And he said
unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her
up
upon an ass, and
the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
29
And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and
divided her,
together
with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
30
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that
the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice,
and speak
your minds.
CHAPTER 20
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 L
ORD
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 Israel, Tell
us,
how
was this wickedness?
4
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and
said, I came into Gibeah that
belongeth
to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
5
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.
6
And I took my concubine, and cut
her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have
committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
7
Behold, ye
are
all children of Israel; give here your advice
and counsel.
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