23 Then the man , the owner of the house , went out to them and said to them, "No , my fellows , please do not act so wickedly ; since e this man has come into my house , do not commit this act of folly . 24 " Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine . Please let me bring them out that you may ravish them and do to them whatever you wish e . But do not commit such an act of folly against this man ." 25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them; and they raped her and abused her all night until morning , then let her go at the approach of dawn .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 19:23-25
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The wickedness of the men of Gibeah.
The three remaining chapters of this book contain a very sad history of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, in Benjamin. The righteous Lord permits sinners to execute just vengeance on one another, and if the scene here described is horrible, what will the discoveries of the day of judgment be! Let each of us consider how to escape from the wrath to come, how to mortify the sins of our own hearts, to resist Satan's temptations, and to avoid the pollutions there are in the world.