19 The result was that as soon as his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying: “Like this and this your servant did to me,” his anger blazed.+

5 And the landowners of Gibʹe·ah proceeded to rise up against me and to surround the house against me by night. It was I that they figured on killing, but it was my concubine that they raped,+ and she gradually died.+

13 And now give over the men,+ the good-for-nothing men,+ that are in Gibʹe·ah,+ that we may put them to death,+ and let us clear out what is bad from Israel.”+ And the sons of Benjamin* did not want to listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel.+

6 “Place me as a seal upon your* heart,+ as a seal upon your arm; because love is as strong as death is,+ insistence on exclusive devotion+ is as unyielding as Sheʹol* is. Its blazings are the blazings of a fire, the flame of Jah.*+