Judges 19:8
And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
Judges 19:8 stands in the closing chapters of Judges, chapters 17 through 21, which follow the main narrative ending with chapter 16 yet record events from the early part of the period of the judges. Those chapters record Israel's backsliding and deeply corrupt moral condition, marked by internal strife, lawlessness, and bloodshed, and by the disgrace and punishment that followed. People did what seemed right to themselves, so that wrong appeared right and right appeared wrong.
More specifically, the verse belongs to the account of the crime at Gibeah, in which the tribe of Benjamin became implicated. There conventional hospitality was treated as more important than a woman's virtue. The account is one of gross immorality that illustrates the consequences of relying on human judgment apart from God's revealed standard. Such sin is not excused and cannot be done with impunity.