1. Judges 20:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What “evil” are the people referring to?

Judges 20:3 (ESV)

3 (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”

Are the people referring to the dismemberment of the Levite’s concubine? Or do they actually know about what provoked the Levite to dismember his concubine? The text does not quite reveal the answer.

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