In the parable in Judges Judges 19:1-29, was the man who murders and dismembers his concubine after she was gang raped, performing god's will? Since she was thrown out of the house by the old man to be raped and abused, surely she was a whore, right? Therefore the man must have been doing the right thing by killing her.
2006-10-26 14:23:37 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-10-26 14:25:39 · update #1
I think that the proper punishment for adultery back then was stoning the woman, not cutting her up into pieces.
2006-10-26 14:29:54 · answer #1 · answered by mesquitemachine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your reading and taking text from the old Testement. In those days , This is a wicked story of a man who let men abuse this women and then to top it off she was murdered. A true example of how women in those days were used, and abused. It was not Gods will that this was done, but that of a very sinful man, who abused this woman. satan guided this man. He was very angry at what had happened, not taking any blame of his own, but took the revenge out on this woman. These men did not protect the woman but used her to no end, then to punish her for what the men had let happen, she was cut up into twelve pieces. She was not a whore, but a very badly abused woman. Even nowdays if a woman in the Middle east commits Adultry, they bury her , excepts for her head and throw stones at her, until she is dead. Women were abuse even back in the Old Testement and it continues on today. The men abused this women terribly and then killed her. Thinking she was un-clean after the filthy things sexually abused her and killed her. Most likely she was a forced concubine. The men were worse sinners then she was.
2006-10-26 14:53:55 · answer #2 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a conservative Christian, nor do I think the Bible is the inerrant word of God, so by no means am I trying to sugar coat the passage or the book of Judges as a whole, but merely trying to situate the story in question in its literary context.
Certainly, this is not an historical event. Very little of the Bible is, and the parts that are historical are so distorted by developing tradition that the historicity is skewed. But I digress.
Judges follows on the heels of the book of Joshua, a book that is the high point of Israel's piousness. Judges begins the decline of the Hebrew people in the continual ebb and flow (represented in Israel's sacred text) of promise, righteousness, rebellion, fall, promise, and on and on.
The story in question shows how perverse the people of Israel had become in their understanding of who God was that they resorted to acts like these and believed that God approved. It is a book of hyperbole, lament and lampoon, not history. Hope that helped a bit and sorry for the long post.
2006-10-26 14:57:42 · answer #3 · answered by Tukiki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man didn't kill his concubine, she died from injuries suffered during the rapes. Out of fear, he had put her out of the house to appease the sadistic gang and save the rest of the household.
He dismembered her body and sent parts all over the area, to get enough people to see what had happened and help him deal with the violent perverts.
There was no king (no government) at that time, and everybody did what they chose. So this seemed to him the best way to get justice.
2006-10-26 14:40:30 · answer #4 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was not a parable, it was an account of a terrible sin that happened. The concubine was already dead. He sent the body into 12 pieces and sent them to the 12 areas of Israel to incite outrage at the horrible sin that happened in Israel. If you take the the time to read the next chapter, you'll see the outcome.
2006-10-26 14:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by moviesmiss1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know nothing. The evil homosexual perverts who attacked the house killed the concubine. The man who owned the concubine was a Levite....that is a Priest. The Levite found the girl dead in the morning after the evil homosexual perverts raped and abused her all night. Obtaining a concubine was legal and acceptable. You miss the point, that is the judgement executed on the evil homosexual perverts of Gibeah and the Benjaminites who protected them.
2006-10-26 14:37:54 · answer #6 · answered by rockEsquirrel 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
first iit was history and no parable
second do not confuse narrative with approval
the book of Judges is designed as a interesting literary Chiasm with two of the key characters in the middle... Gideon of mannasa and Sampson the Strong man of Dan
the story you mention is part of the appendix to Judges where there are two sad stories ... the tribes of the greatest heroes of Judges Gideon and Sampson both fall into sin... no approval here... and are judged by God... why is it there you ask?????
perhaps it is there are a reminder of the key theme of Judges... every man did what was right in his own eyes... and it ain't a pretty sight
perhaps it is there as a reminder as in the case of the wisest more talented richest blessed king in history Solomon, his heart was split and left a divided split kingdom he could no bring in the righteous kingdom of God....
only Jesus, the greater than Solomon... the grater than Samson...the greater than Gideon can do that
"and the government shall be on HIS shoulders"
WOW, What a God!!!!!!
2006-10-26 14:31:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The man who murdered her was not performing Gods will.
He was a coward for turing her over. He should have protected all in his house not just the men.
The Priest should have stoned her as the law required. instead of keeping her company.
2006-10-26 14:36:53 · answer #8 · answered by td3nnis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think you are missing the point of the story
the man DID throw her out to be raped, but she was dead already the next morning, before he "divided her limb from limb"
in the next chapter which describes his trial, he says he did it so that he could send her pieces throughout israel and remind the israelites of the "lewdness and wantoness"
and then the other israelites refused to enter his "tent" (basically, they shunned him) and went on to try and kill the rapists and "expell the evil from israel", and they went to with over the town where this happened
2006-10-26 14:39:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Im not that religious so that story isnt fresh in my memory but the bible does say that we are NOT to take it upon ourselves to kill another person, so he was not doing the right thing by killing her
2006-10-26 14:29:20 · answer #10 · answered by Esme 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋