We must do something! So speak up!

 Judges 19:22-30

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 outrageous 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 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. Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “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!”

There too, weighted against the duty to an honored guest, a woman counted for little. But in this case, no angelic presence saves the concubine from horrible gangrape. So, in a second terrible atrocity, her husband uses the pieces of her body to summon the 12 tribes to avenge her.

Why?

There were homosexual activities at the time. 

Not only have not mercy and love to treat the travelers but dishonor and hurt the guest is worse behavior.

This Levite is cruel and uses his concubine dead body to revenge this blood.

When there is no God there is a terrible society.

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老年人的處理方式令人費解?為何保護客人卻犧牲客人的妾及女兒。當時被認為合理。在沒有神的情況下，只憑當時社會標準，令人不 ，我們以為做好事，卻殘忍。

利未人居然把他的妾拉出去交給匪徒。他大老遠來帶妾回家，好像愛她的妾，怎麼會把他的妾推出去。跑回娘家4個月後再去接妾回家，這是愛自己，還是愛妾呢?

這個利未人似乎沒有關心昨晚發生的事，打開準備回家。只說起來我們走吧！沒有一點哀傷，憤怒，好像昨晚都沒有發生似的。趕快結束小老婆的事回家！

切成塊的動詞只用在祭物牲畜切成塊。竟然可以把妾切成這樣子。我們推定此利未人沒用

雖然說這妾似乎犯奸淫，更早的古抄本，是指兩人爭吵，以致妾回娘家。顯然他也怪他的妾，同時要別人為他報仇。如此宗教、道德敗壞不是短時間造成的。這利未人好像在發義怒，要人報仇，打內仗。這事真的不對嗎？還是不合自己的意，私慾！求神幫助我們去評論、判斷對錯時，不要用自己的想法，喜好來判斷。

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How?

People have to bear their own responsibility.