Sunday, December 19, 2010

Judges 19 begins with "In those days Israel had no king". I'm supposing that this is a reminder again that these people are continuing to do whatever evil is in their heart with no regard to God. In this chapter, a Levite's wife was unfaithful to him and left him. He went after her and took her back, but then ran into trouble on the way back home. The couple end up staying with a nice old man who insisted on giving them shelter and provisions, but a group of wicked men arrived with perverse intentions. The old man tried to send the men away, but they raped and abused the Levite's wife and she eventually died the next morning. The chapter ends with a statement about how such evil things had never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt.