Israel continued its fall into depravity, and even the holiest people did whatever they wanted. A Levite, a minister of God, took on a concubine, who eventually left him. After a while, he left his home in Ephraim to go to Bethlehem and fetch his concubine. But whenever he arrived, the woman's father kept finding ways to keep him at their house. When they finally escaped, the Levite decided to press on to the land of Benjamin. But little did he know that Gibeah had become the new Sodom.
