1. Judges 19:24 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why is it significant that the man’s daughter is a virgin?

Judges 19:24 (ESV)

24 Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”

That the old man’s own daughter is a virgin only adds to the horror of what is about to happen. This is now the second time in Judges that a virgin daughter is sacrificed on account of a father’s perverted sense of obligation (see Judges 11:39). And it anticipates later in the same story, where more young women are going to become victims of similar abuse (Judges 21:19–22).