Judges 20:4-6

20:4 The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night. 20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died. 20:6 I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces throughout the territory occupied by Israel, because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity in Israel.

tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”

tn Heb “came to.”

tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”

tn Heb “her”; the referent is more naturally stated in English as “the pieces.”

tn Heb “throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel.”

tn Heb “a wicked and disgraceful [thing].”