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We are in our final episode in the Book of Judges.

It has been a wild ride, hasn't it, Cedding?

It has been very crazy, and it's going to get a little crazier before we get to take a breath.

Okay, all right.

Well, then let's jump right in, and I will brace myself for the crazy.

Okay.

So these are sort of brutal chapters.

So brace yourself.

So again, we hear the refrain in chapter 19.

There's no king in Israel.

Okay.

And we're also introduced to sort of a different story or a different subplot within judges.

We have a different Levite who's wandering around and he's wandering on with this concubine.

And he insists, rather than staying amongst these foreigners, because he thinks that they're, you know, evil and immoral, he insists on staying in an Israelite city.

Okay? So as he stays in the Israelite city,

some guy comes to him in the square and he says, hey, you can come stay with me and it'll be great.

So as they're all eating and drinking and staying in this home, the men of this city, the men of

Gibia is the name of the city, they surround the house and they say, send out that man

so we can assault him. But the owner of the home says, I'm not going to do that. I can't do that.

But here's my virgin daughter and the man's concubine instead. You can assault them. So already,

it's like, how on earth is this story even here? Okay. So pretty

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