Discovery BoxJudges 20:4-6 
Context20:4 The Levite, 1 the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in 2 Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin 3 to spend the night. 20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. 4 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 5 throughout the territory occupied by Israel, 6 because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity 7 in Israel.
1 tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”
2 tn Heb “came to.”
3 tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”
4 tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”
5 tn Heb “her”; the referent is more naturally stated in English as “the pieces.”
6 tn Heb “throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel.”
7 tn Heb “a wicked and disgraceful [thing].”
