Judges 19

Theme of chapter: Religious apostasy was visited in the last chapter, and moral awfulness is visited here.

Most important verse: Judges 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

Most prominent word: concubine (a female consort generally with lower status and fewer rights than a wife, with the function of giving social status or pleasure to the husband)

Teaching about Christ: Without Christ, man is desperately wicked.

Command to obey: seek God and flee from the temptations of the flesh.

Promise to claim: man left alone, there is no depth to the wickedness of his heart.

New truth learned: A Levite having a concubine, and then chopping her up into pieces. I think they've hit rock bottom in moral awfulness here.