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Judges Chapter 19-21
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
- Verses 1-5
- Verses 6-10
- Verses 11-15
- Verses 16-20
- Verses 21-25
- Verses 26-30
- Verses 31-35
- Verses 36-40
- Verses 41-45
- Verses 46-48
Chapter 21
Questions
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First of all, are we to understand that when the “lord rose up in the morning” and his concubine didn’t answer him, she was already dead?
Secondly, assuming the lord was not the murderer, I was thinking about my own wife—what I would do if I found her raped and murdered on my doorstep, and it certainly wouldn’t involve cutting up her body and sending the parts around the country. If nothing else, I would give her a proper burial; it would be the very least I could do.
That having been said, what was the general status of concubines in ancient Israel? I understand that they weren’t on the same level as a “primary” wife, but was it generally just a legal relationship without feeling?
