Today is the fourth day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is

wonderful to be here with you today around the global campfire as we gather and

take the next step forward together and our next step forward leads us back into

the book of Judges. We are very near the end of the book of Judges. We will

conclude the book tomorrow, but that's then and this is now and so we have another

full step forward together in the book of Judges. And so let's dive in. We're

reading from the English standard version this week. Judges, chapters 19 and 20.

In those days when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was so

journeying in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim who took to

himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah and his concubine was unfaithful to

him and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah and

was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her to speak

kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of

donkeys and she brought him into her father's house and when the girl's father

saw him he came with joy to meet him and his father-in-law the girl's father

made him stay and he remained with him three days so they ate and drank and

spent the night there and on the fourth day they arose early in the morning and

he prepared to go but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, strengthen your

heart with a morsel of bread and after that you may go. So the two of them satan

ate and drank together and the girl's father said to the man, be pleased to

spend the night and let your heart be merry and when the man rose up to go his

father-in-law pressed him to least spend the night there again and on the fifth

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