Judges 19:3
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
The closing narrative to which this verse belongs stands in Judges 17 to 21, which happened in the early part of the time of the judges rather than at the end, and the main story of the book ends with chapter 16. Those five chapters belong earlier in time than chapters 11 to 16. They are to be studied together with Joshua 23, 24 and Judges 1 to 10, at the time when Joshua is near his end rehearsing God's dealings and charging Israel to choose whom to serve while declaring that he and his house will serve the Lord.
The verse belongs to the account of the crime of the people of Gibeah, with whom the tribe of Benjamin identified itself. It falls within the closing chapters of Judges, which are characterized by internal strife, lawlessness, and bloodshed, in contrast with the peaceful story of Ruth. It belongs to a record of Israel's backsliding and resulting disgrace and punishment. The events around it show that gross immorality prevailed in Israel during the period of the judges, when people did what was right in their own eyes, and the condition described in chapters 18 and 19 was scarcely exceeded by Sodom.
The chapter exposes a society in which conventional hospitality is valued above a woman's virtue and tribal loyalty above justice, and neither custom excuses sin. The verse calls the man whose concubine he seeks to bring back her husband, showing that a concubine was a legally recognized wife of inferior rank, including a slave wife. The verse describes the husband's servant with the Hebrew term for young man, showing that servants could be described with the same term used for free persons and were regarded as men, not as property.