And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces
Lest it should be thought that these barbarous creatures, after
they had used her in such a manner that occasioned her death,
that they had committed this fact also; the Levite takes it to
himself, and owns that he did that:
and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance
of Israel;
to alarm them, and excite their attention to what had passed, and
to raise their indignation against it:
for they have committed lewdness and folly in
Israel;
being guilty of adultery and murder, and would have committed the
unnatural crime, if they could have had an opportunity of doing
it.