Rape, Murder, and extreme violence
Judges 19:22-29 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, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him."
The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this disgraceful thing. 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 to this man, don't do such a disgraceful thing."
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. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.
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. He said to her, "Get up; let's go." But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
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.
PERSONAL COMMENTARY
Wow! This is definitely X-Rated stuff. Doesn't this sound very similar to the Lot story?
4 comments:
This is the scariest, most awful, horrible thing Ive ever read (well, theres a lot of other ones in the Bible) but this is exactly the kind of thing that made me doubt the Bible in the first place.
I mean... WTF? The Lot one is even worse. *sigh* Why didnt the angels do anything?
This likely represents the example of Israel's own adultery, and the twelve tribes being scattered. This also shows that wickedness can be ugly, and the response to it even again as much, if not more so.
The world doesn't consist of all flowery gardens, jungles, and rainforests. There're naturally going to be a few deserts. The bible and life itself is the same way. There can be some very dry, dangerous places people have to travel through.
Also, @Knachy, the Angels did do something. They got Lot and his family out of the city and burned it down, and told them to never look back to the city. When you leave such a wicked and terrible place as where they lived, you aren't supposed to look back on it because you miss it.
I think that it is really interesting, I have been studying to be a expert in books since 2000
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