Try out the new Click here!  Judges 19 (New International
Version)  View In My Bible  A Levite and His Concubine  1 In
those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a
remote area in the hill country of Ephraim1 took a concubine
from Bethlehem in Judah.2 2 But she was unfaithful to him. She
left him and went back to her father's house in Bethlehem,
Judah. After she had been there four months, 3 her husband went
to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant
and two donkeys. She took him into her father's house, and when
her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him. 4 His father-in-law,
the girl's father, prevailed upon him to stay; so he remained
with him three days, eating and drinking,3 and sleeping there. 5
On the fourth day they got up early and he prepared to leave,
but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Refresh yourself4
with something to eat; then you can go." 6 So the two of them
sat down to eat and drink together. Afterward the girl's father
said, "Please stay tonight a