Judges 19:26
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.
The event happened in the early part of the history of the judges, though it stands in chapters 17-21 at the end of the book, after the main story which ends with chapter 16. It took place at Gibeah of Benjamin, within an hour's walk from Jerusalem. It belongs to the account of the crime and grave outrage at Gibeah committed by the people of Gibeah, with which the tribe of Benjamin identified itself, recording the disgraceful murder of the Levite's concubine that nearly resulted in the extermination of Benjamin.
It belongs to a record of Israel's backsliding and severe moral corruption during the period when people did what seemed right to themselves, followed by disgrace and punishment. The events valued hospitality above a woman's virtue and tribal loyalty above justice, but neither custom excuses sin. As part of this record of immorality, it reveals how conscience and human reason without God's revelation can become perverted so that wrong appears right. It records part of Israel's backsliding that cannot be done with impunity.