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Podcast: Gilbert House Fellowship
Episode: The Levite's Concubine
Description: ODOM AND GOMORRAH come to mind when reading the last chapters of the Book of Judges.The disturbing events recorded in the final chapters of Judges describe a time “when there was no king in Israel.” A Levite from the hill country of Ephraim traveled to Bethlehem to bring home his wayward concubine, probably a secondary wife. On their return journey north, they stopped for the night at Gibeah, a town in the territory of Benjamin about four miles north of Jerusalem.Then things took a horrifying turn.The men of the city, like...