Sexual Violence

• Judges 19:22-30: The story of a Levite and his concubine, where she is brutally raped and killed.

  • "But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go."

• 2 Samuel 13:1-22: The rape of Tamar by her brother Amnon.

  • "But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, 'Come to bed with me, my sister.'"