1. Judges 19:25 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why do the Gibeahites turn down the offer?

Judges 19:25 (ESV)

25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.

The Gibeahites turn down the old man’s offer. For their primary aim is not sexual gratification, or fulfilling a homosexual urge, as much as all that is there. Their foremost aim is to humiliate this Levite stranger. So if they cannot shame him directly, they will still get at him. They do not want the host’s virgin daughter. They want the Levite’s concubine.