Intro:Anarchy [an=w/o - arkhos=chief/ruller; w/o a ruler]
Imagine a football game with no rules. Sounds like fun but in in anarchy. Imagine a busy intersection w/no stop lights. It can function, but with a lot of frustration and people ultimately doing what they please.
Here we have a nation w/no rules. Not wanting to follow God. No leadership over them. And every man doing what is right in his own eyes.
We have this last story in Judges, bringing us to a culmination of the horrible conditions that prevailed in Israel, right before the rise of the monarchy. Chaos, lawlessness, & anarchy prevailed.
Map of cities to know: Ephraim Benjamin, Judah. Jebus(ites)Jer Jabesh Gilead Bethlehem
GIBEANITES GONE WILD(Ch.19)
(1) A concubine was a friend with benefits in that day. A sexual partner, but who did not possess the legal and cultural status of a wife.
Lev.21:14,15 says who he can/can’t marry. A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot - these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife. Didn’t say anything about concubine!Levitical Loopholehe thought?
(15) Hospitality a prime virtue in their culture...normally. But here a serious breach of Near Eastern etiquette.
(23,24) In the name of hospitality - this man was willing to protect this male visitor...and forsake the defense of the weak & helpless.
He knew his neighbors were wrong by wanting to have sex with this man [see wickedly, outrage, vile] But decides heterosexual rape is better than homosexual rape?
(25) Gang raped her all night.
(27) I guess he got a good nights sleep.
(28,29) He was surprised she was dead, or almost?
So he takes her home & dismembers her body (like a bad episode of Criminal Minds) & sends the pieces to each of the12 tribes.
It was symbolic act. If Israel failed to help him take revenge they would suffer the same fate as his concubine.
I wonder if this is where Saul gets the idea to unite Israel later, where he did this w/ one of his dads yoke of oxen?
Well, He got the desired outcome...see vs.30.
With the rape of the Levite’s concubine, the moral depravity of Israel reached a new low.
Judges 19 is the updated equivalent of Genesis 19. Sodom & Gomorrah & lot.
Not only do the two share much of the same vocabulary, the # of Hebrew words in Gen 19:4–8 and Judg 19:22–24 are identical.
How far Israel had fallen! Adultery, lack of common hospitality, sodomy, rape, and murder had become a way of life!
When people become their own law, social order and basic morality do not exist. Humankind, left to its own devices, falls into unimaginable sin.
Intro:Anarchy [an=w/o - arkhos=chief/ruller; w/o a ruler]
Imagine a football game with no rules. Sounds like fun but in in anarchy. Imagine a busy intersection w/no stop lights. It can function, but with a lot of frustration and people ultimately doing what they please.
Here we have a nation w/no rules. Not wanting to follow God. No leadership over them. And every man doing what is right in his own eyes.
We have this last story in Judges, bringing us to a culmination of the horrible conditions that prevailed in Israel, right before the rise of the monarchy. Chaos, lawlessness, & anarchy prevailed.
Map of cities to know: Ephraim Benjamin, Judah. Jebus(ites)Jer Jabesh Gilead Bethlehem
GIBEANITES GONE WILD(Ch.19)
(1) A concubine was a friend with benefits in that day. A sexual partner, but who did not possess the legal and cultural status of a wife.
Lev.21:14,15 says who he can/can’t marry. A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot - these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife. Didn’t say anything about concubine!Levitical Loopholehe thought?
(15) Hospitality a prime virtue in their culture...normally. But here a serious breach of Near Eastern etiquette.
(23,24) In the name of hospitality - this man was willing to protect this male visitor...and forsake the defense of the weak & helpless.
He knew his neighbors were wrong by wanting to have sex with this man [see wickedly, outrage, vile] But decides heterosexual rape is better than homosexual rape?
(25) Gang raped her all night.
(27) I guess he got a good nights sleep.
(28,29) He was surprised she was dead, or almost?
So he takes her home & dismembers her body (like a bad episode of Criminal Minds) & sends the pieces to each of the12 tribes.
It was symbolic act. If Israel failed to help him take revenge they would suffer the same fate as his concubine.
I wonder if this is where Saul gets the idea to unite Israel later, where he did this w/ one of his dads yoke of oxen?
Well, He got the desired outcome...see vs.30.
With the rape of the Levite’s concubine, the moral depravity of Israel reached a new low.
Judges 19 is the updated equivalent of Genesis 19. Sodom & Gomorrah & lot.
Not only do the two share much of the same vocabulary, the # of Hebrew words in Gen 19:4–8 and Judg 19:22–24 are identical.
How far Israel had fallen! Adultery, lack of common hospitality, sodomy, rape, and murder had become a way of life!
When people become their own law, social order and basic morality do not exist. Humankind, left to its own devices, falls into unimaginable sin.
Verses 1-30
Verses 1-30