Judges 19:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² And 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.

Judges 19:2 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:28

You played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you played the harlot with them, and still you were not satisfied.

Leviticus 21:9

And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Judges 19:1

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

Judges 19:3

Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of asses. And he came to her father's house; and when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.