Judges 19:1 meaning and explanation
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Judges 19:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator opens with a phrase that frames the whole story: there was no king in Israel. This is not a comment on politics so much as on the moral and social disorder of the period of the judges, when everyone did as they saw fit.
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