World English Bible
Judges 20:6
“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.”
Verse in context — Judges 20
The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead.
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.
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
All the people arose as one man, saying, "We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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