Judges 19:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And his concubine was untrue to him and went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem of Judah and stayed there the space of four months.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.

Common English Bible

² In an act of unfaithfulness toward him, his secondary wife left him and went back to her father’s household at Bethlehem in Judah. She stayed there four full months.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² She left him, and she returned to the house of her father in Bethlehem. And she stayed with him for four months.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And she left him and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.

Judges 19:2 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:28

You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them, and still you were not satisfied.

Leviticus 21:9

When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a disgraceful act in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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 19:1

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.

Judges 19:3

Then her husband set out after her, to speak tenderly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. When he reached her father’s house, the young woman’s father saw him and came with joy to meet him.