Jueces 20:5

5 Esa noche, algunos de los ciudadanos prominentes de Guibeá rodearon la casa con la intención de matarme, y violaron a mi concubina hasta que quedó muerta.

Jueces 20:5 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:5

And the men of Gibeah rose against me
Not all of them, but some that dwelt in that city; he forbears giving them the character they justly deserved, sons of Belial. These came in a tumultuous and violent manner,

and beset the house round about upon me by night;
that he might not make his escape, resolving if possible to get him into their hands, and do with him according to their will:

and thought to have slain me;
their first intention was to commit the unnatural sin on him, and, if he resisted, to slay him; but this he modestly conceals, as being a sin not to be named in an assembly of saints; and besides he might say this, because he himself chose rather to be slain than to submit to their lust, which he knew must be the case upon his refusal and resistance; and even if he had yielded, being overpowered, this would have been the consequence, that he should have been abused even unto death, as his wife was:

and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead;
or "afflicted", or "humbled" ^F4 her; which is a modest expression for carnal knowledge of her, and which they had to such excess that she died through it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (wne) "afflixerunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus.

Jueces 20:5 In-Context

3 (Pronto llegó la noticia a la tierra de Benjamín de que las otras tribus habían subido a Mizpa). Entonces los israelitas preguntaron cómo había sucedido ese crimen tan terrible.

4 El levita, el esposo de la mujer asesinada, explicó:
—Mi concubina y yo nos detuvimos para pasar la noche en Guibeá, una ciudad que pertenece a la tribu de Benjamín.

5 Esa noche, algunos de los ciudadanos prominentes de Guibeá rodearon la casa con la intención de matarme, y violaron a mi concubina hasta que quedó muerta.

6 Entonces corté su cuerpo en doce pedazos y envié los pedazos por todo el territorio asignado a Israel, porque esos hombres han cometido un crimen terrible y vergonzoso.

7 Ahora bien, todos ustedes —la comunidad entera de Israel— tienen que decidir aquí y ahora qué debe hacerse al respecto.