A Levite and His Concubine

19 In those days, ^(A)when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from ^(C)Bethlehem in Judah.

Danites Take the Levite and the Idol

18 ^(A)In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days ^(B)the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

⁸ And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to ^(A)the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

^15 (A)Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?^[a] And what was the one God^[b] seeking?^{[c] (B)}Godly offspring. So guard yourselves^[d] in your spirit, and let none of you be ^(C)faithless to the wife of your youth.

^25 (A)In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

^6 (A)In those days there was no king in Israel. ^(B)Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

³³ And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of ^(A)Phinehas his son, which had been given him in ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim.

³⁰ And they buried him in his own inheritance at ^(A)Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

³ Then they brought in ^(A)the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.