Judges 19:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ IN THOSE days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living temporarily in the most remote part of the hill district of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine [of inferior status than a wife] from Bethlehem in Judah.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

Common English Bible

¹ In those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living as an immigrant in the far corners of the Ephraim highlands. He married a secondary wife from Bethlehem in Judah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ There was a certain man, a Levite, living beside mount Ephraim, who took a wife from Bethlehem of Judah.

Judges 19:1 Cross References

Judges 18:1

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in, for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them.

Judges 17:8

This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live wherever he could find a place. He came to the house of Micah in the hill country of Ephraim to carry on his work.

Matthew 2:6

‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.’ ”

Malachi 2:15

Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.

Judges 21:25

In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.

Joshua 24:33

Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of his son Phinehas, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

Joshua 24:30

They buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Daniel 5:3

So they brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

Esther 2:14

In the evening she went in; then in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).

1 Kings 11:3

Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.

2 Samuel 20:3

David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

2 Samuel 19:5

Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have covered with shame the faces of all your officers who have saved your life today, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

2 Samuel 16:22

So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 5:13

In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

2 Samuel 3:7

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ishbaal said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

Judges 17:1

There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Genesis 35:19

And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

Genesis 22:24

Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the clan of Judah. He was a Levite residing there.

Judges 19:2

But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah and was there some four months.

Judges 19:16

Then at evening there was an old man coming from his work in the field. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was residing in Gibeah. (The people of the place were Benjaminites.)

Judges 3:27

When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hill country, having him at their head.

Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Judges 18:13

From there they passed on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

1 Kings 4:8

These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;