Canonical biblical theme
Sexual Violence
Holy Living
Themes
A biblical theme reflected in passages describing abuse, violation, and a murdered woman.
The Bible records sexual violence in passages that describe a woman being abused through the night and another woman being overpowered and violated. Judges 19:25 says that men abused a concubine until morning; Judges 20:4 identifies the speaker as the husband of the murdered woman and says he had come with his concubine to Gibeah. In 2 Samuel 13:14, a man refuses to listen to a woman, overpowers her, violates her, and lies with her.
The word or idea recurs in at least 3 verses across 2 books and 3 episodes.
3
Verses
2
Books
Key verses
Across Scripture
Judges · 2 Samuel