Judges 19:25
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Judges 19:25 belongs to Judges 17 to 21, which follows Joshua 23, 24 and Judges 1 to 10, coming after Joshua's rehearsal of God's dealings, his admonition to choose, and his pledge that he and his house would serve the Lord. Although placed at the end of the book, the events it records occurred in the early part of the history of the judges, while the main narrative of the book ends with chapter 16. As part of those closing chapters, it illustrates the low condition of Israel just before Samuel was called as a prophet.
The verse is part of a record of Israel's backsliding and the disgrace and punishment that followed it. That backsliding gives no reason to think such conduct can be done with impunity. It depicts the extreme sexual violence and moral corruption prevailing when people did what seemed right to them, a depravity scarcely less than Sodom's. It shows hospitality being treated as more important than a woman's virtue, though that priority never excuses the sin.
The event took place at Gibeah of Benjamin, meaning high, lying within an hour's walk from Jerusalem, a little more than a mile from Nob, about 2,690 feet above the sea and about 200 feet higher than Jerusalem, commanding a fine view even beyond the Dead Sea far into the mountains of Moab. It belongs to the account of the crime committed by the people of Gibeah, with whom the whole tribe of Benjamin identified itself. The act against the Levite's concubine there was a disgraceful murder, and it nearly resulted in the extermination of the tribe of Benjamin.