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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Levite and His Concubine</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Israel had no king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.19.1"><span class="content">Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents&#8217; home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents&#8217; home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His father-in-law, the woman&#8217;s father, prevailed on him to stay; so he remained with him three days, eating and drinking, and sleeping there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the fourth day they got up early and he prepared to leave, but the woman&#8217;s father said to his son-in-law, &#8220;Refresh yourself with something to eat; then you can go.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the two of them sat down to eat and drink together. Afterward the woman&#8217;s father said, &#8220;Please stay tonight and enjoy yourself.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And when the man got up to go, his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">On the morning of the fifth day, when he rose to go, the woman&#8217;s father said, &#8220;Refresh yourself. Wait till afternoon!&#8221; So the two of them ate together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman&#8217;s father, said, &#8220;Now look, it&#8217;s almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But, unwilling to stay another night, the man left and went toward Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His master replied, &#8220;No. We won&#8217;t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He added, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, &#8220;Where are you going? Where did you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">going home</span></span></span><span class="content"> No one has taken me in for the night. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants&#8212;me, the woman and the young man with us. We don&#8217;t need anything.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are welcome at my house,&#8221; the old man said. &#8220;Let me supply whatever you need. Only don&#8217;t spend the night in the square.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, &#8220;Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The owner of the house went outside and said to them, &#8220;No, my friends, don&#8217;t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don&#8217;t do this outrageous thing. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don&#8217;t do such an outrageous thing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He said to her, &#8220;Get up; let&#8217;s go.&#8221; But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, &#8220;Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You who are my Comforter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:18 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">my heart is faint within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to the cry of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">from a land far away:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> not in Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">Is her King no longer there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have they aroused my anger with their images,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">with their worthless foreign idols?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The harvest is past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">the summer has ended,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">and we are not saved.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">I mourn, and horror grips me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Is there no balm in Gilead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Is there no physician there?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Why then is there no healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">for the wound of my people?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What harmony is there between Christ and Belial</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Beliar</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Belial</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I will live with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and walk among them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and I will be their God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and they will be my people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out from them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">and be separate,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">says the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">Touch no unclean thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">and I will receive you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">&#8220;I will be a Father to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">and you will be my sons and daughters,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">says the Lord Almighty.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:18 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8</span></span></span></span></div>
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