The Levite’s Concubine

19 And it came to pass in those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from (B)Bethlehem in Judah.

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The Danites Adopt Micah’s Idolatry

18 In (A)those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days (B)the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inheritance among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them.

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The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

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‘But(A) you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a Ruler
(B)Who will shepherd My people Israel.’

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15 But (A)did He not make them one,
Having a remnant of the Spirit?
And why one?
He seeks (B)godly offspring.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.

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25 (A)In those days there was no king in Israel; (B)everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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(A)In those days there was no king in Israel; (B)everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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33 And (A)Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in a hill belonging to (B)Phinehas his son, which was given to him in the mountains of Ephraim.

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30 And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at (A)Timnath Serah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.

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Then they brought the gold (A)vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

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14 In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who kept the concubines. She would not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in her and called for her by name.

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21 Now Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his (A)wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

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Now David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, (A)his concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in seclusion and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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Then (A)Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who today have saved your life, the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines,

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22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines (A)in the sight of all Israel.

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13 And (A)David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron. Also more sons and daughters were born to David.

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And Saul had a concubine, whose name was (A)Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you (B)gone in to my father’s concubine?”

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Micah’s Idolatry

17 Now there was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was (A)Micah.

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19 So (A)Rachel died and was buried on the way to (B)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he (A)sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to (B)the country of the east.

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24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.

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