Bible Discussion Thread

Why didn't they just kill the men. This would had solved everything!! And, the virgin would not had been brutally raped.

the concubine was not a virgin she had played the whore on her husband.

Just how many women are in a concubine and all married to the same man.
I understand why, fore it was to populate the earth.

a concubine was a woman who was not technically a wife, yet was available for the pleasure of a man and was treated similar to a wife. Websters 1828 dictionary CONCUBINE, noun Latin , to lie together, to lie down.
1. A woman who cohabits with a man, without the authority of a legal marriage; a woman kept for lewd purposes; a kept mistress.

2. A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws.

Thank you Bob, for clearing up the meaning of concubine, I was way off base.