Judges 19:1

In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite ¹  living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine ²  from Bethlehem ³  in Judah.

Ge 22:24; Ge 25:6; Ge 35:19; Jos 24:30,33; Jud 17:1,8; Jud 17:6; Jud 17:8; Jud 18:1; Jud 21:25; 2Sa 3:7; 2Sa 5:13; 2Sa 16:22; 2Sa 19:5; 2Sa 20:3; 1Ki 11:3; 2Ch 11:21; Es 2:14; So 6:8,9; Da 5:3; Mal 2:15; Mt 2:6

¹ tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”

² sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.

³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.