Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Welcome back to a year in the Bible of Daily Grace. My name is Alexa, and today we are

finishing our study of Judges by reading Judges 19-21. As we open up chapter 19, read

me that there is no king in Israel. Israel has rejected the spiritual authority of the

Lord, but there isn't even a human authority there to help them. Because of this, Israel

is in deep moral failure. Chapter 19 reflects the moral failure of Israel, and what is maybe

one of the most horrific chapters of the Bible? In this story, a Levi at man takes a

concubine with him in his travels. After staying in the home of the concubine's father,

the Levi and his concubine travel near Jebus. Being late in the day, they decide to spend

the night in a city called Ghibia. Sadly, no one would take them in to stay when they

got in the city. One man, a surjourner in Ghibia, offers for the Levi and man in his concubine

to stay in his home. During the night, a group of men from Ghibia come upon the home and demand

to have sexual relations with the Levi and man. The only man tries to reason with these

men by saying that he will send out his daughters and his concubine. But the men won't listen.

So the Levi and man sends out his concubine instead. Read how this poor woman is sexually

assaulted, abused, and left for dead. When the Levi and man goes out to her in the

morning and sees that she is dead, he cuts off her body in 12 pieces and sends out those

pieces to the 12th chapter of Israel. When the people of Israel hear of this awful act,

they are outraged. They decide to seek justice and kill the men who did these terrible acts

to the women. These evil men in Ghibia are part of the type of Benjamin. In their sin,

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