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Judges 19:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Judges 19:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 19
The Levite’s Concubine.[a] 1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and there was a certain Levite who lived on the far side of the hill country of Ephraim who took a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah. 2 His concubine cheated on him and she returned to her father’s house in Bethlehem. She had been there for four months
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- Judges 19:1 In the absence of a single, stable authority, the religious anarchy that divided the people was accompanied by a moral and political anarchy; the royalist tradition likes to stress this fact. The story exaggerates the memory of grudges and acts of cruelty.
