Judges 19:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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.