It’s not easy to look at the evil behind the abuse of women, but God wants you to face it, because He told us the story of a sexually abused concubine, in the Book of Judges. Fellow blogger, Tiffany, opens up this passage in ways you wouldn’t expect!
Pleading hands stretch out on a wooden doorframe. Crimson blood stains its lintel. A woman’s life slips silently away as the members of the household sleep in peace, safe on the other side of the door. Do they not care that she has spent the night in indescribable torture? Does it not matter to them that she has been raped and beaten beyond recognition? But they sleep on, undisturbed by her plight. And she breathes her last, voiceless in life as in death.
In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her father’s house in Bethlehem, Judah.
Judges 19:1-2
What voice did she have in leaving home and becoming a concubine? Bethlehem was her birthplace, and…
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