Bible Strands
Judges 19:27
In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text describes the master rising at dawn to depart, opening the house doors, and finding his concubine collapsed at the threshold with her hands resting on it.
The words — דַּלְת֣וֹת (dal.Tot) = doors of and הַ/בַּ֔יִת (ha./Ba.yit) = the house mark the physical boundary between the man's departure and the woman's immobilized position.
The thread — The verse continues the narrative of the Levite's concubine's death at Gibeah, linking this domestic violence to the broader cycle of moral collapse and tribal disintegration recorded in Judges 17–21.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition of how routine violence becomes normalized when perpetrators treat human life as an obstacle to their own comfort or itinerary.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.