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A Levite from the mountains of Ephraim had a concubine, who left him and returned to the house of her father in Bethlehem in Judah. [2] Heidi M. Szpek observes that this story serves to support the institution of monarchy, and the choice of the locations of Ephraim (the ancestral home of Samuel, who anointed the first king) and Bethlehem (the home of King David) are not accidental.
As Lot had done (Genesis 19:8), the host attempted to appease the wild men outside by offering them his "virgin daughters" (cf. Genesis 19:8) and the Levite's concubine, but the people outside decline the offer. The Levite then acted, throwing his concubine outside to the vicious mob and locking the door (verse 25–28; cf. Judges 20:6; in ...
Gibeah in the tribe of Benjamin was the location of the infamous rape of the Levite's concubine, and the resulting Battle of Gibeah (Judges 19–21).Israel’s first king, King Saul, reigned here for 22 years (1 Samuel 8–31).
A Levite and his concubine traveling from Bethlehem enter Gibeah and lodge in the street. An old man persuades them to come into his house. The men outside shout to the old man to bring the traveler out. Instead the concubine is brought out and the men of Gibeah rape and kill her.
The Levite finds his concubine lying on the doorstep, James Tissot, 19th century. The Levite's concubine in the book of Judges is "vulnerable as she is only a minor wife, a concubine". [2]: 173 She is one of the biblical nameless. Frymer-Kensky says this story is also an example of class intersecting with gender and power: when she is unhappy ...
Levite's concubine (Judges 19–21): the gang rape of a Levite's concubine leads to war between the Benjamites and the other Israelite tribes, after which hundreds of virgins are taken captive as wives for the decimated Benjamites. [20]
The episode of the Levite's concubine, also known as the Benjamite War, [51] is presented in Judges 19–21 (chapters 19, 20 and 21 of the Book of Judges). A Levite from Ephraim and his concubine travel through the Benjamite city of Gibeah and are assailed by a mob, who wish to gang-rape the Levite. He turns his concubine over to the crowd, and ...
Jabesh is mentioned in the biblical episode of the Levite's concubine, also known as the Benjamite War, during which eleven tribes of Israel had massacred the Tribe of Benjamin. The eleven tribes relented from wiping out the whole tribe, and decided that they needed to find wives for the 600 remaining Benjaminite men since all other people in ...