Atrocities in the Bible

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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I don't know if anybody has mentioned these but-Lot offers his daughter to be gang raped (it doesn't happen) A Levite offers his concubine to be gang raped, she is most likely raped to death, then he cuts her into 12 pieces and sends those pieces to the 12 tribes of Israel.

Judges 19 is pretty brutal

Judges chapter 19 is the most disgusting book in the Bible.  It's a real horror story.  But it's a story about hospitality and a replay of similar ones involving Abraham and Lot.  

Remember, the guy was traveling but he refused to stay in a Gentile city.  He continued on until he reached an Israelite (Benjamite) town.  According to the rules of hospitality in the Jewish Babylonian Talmud people should have been eager to invite him into their homes and to take care of his needs.  They didn't.  

Then an old man saw them and took them to his house and took care of them although they had their own supplies.  

As they were having fun the thug crowd showed up (like in Lot's case) and wanted to screw the visitor.  At that point the old man offered up his virgin daughter and the man's concubine.  In the Jewish Babylonian Talmud a Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old (Sanhedrin 54b).  The crowd rapes the woman.  The man finds out that she's dead and cuts her up into twelve pieces and sends them throughout all the territory of Israel.  

The important thing to remember is that the guy wasn't really upset that his woman was raped.  They sent her out for that purpose.  He wasn't too upset that she died.  He was pissed that the townspeople had violated the rules of hospitality.  That was an insult against God and had to be punished.