Judges 20:6
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges 20:6 belongs to the closing chapters of Judges, chapters 17 through 21, which record events that occurred early in the history of the judges before Samuel the prophet was called. Those closing chapters show the low fallen state into which Israel had fallen before that call.
The verse took place at Gibeah of Benjamin, within about an hour's walk from Jerusalem. It is the Levite's own account of the disgraceful murder of his concubine at Gibeah and of his cutting her body in pieces to send throughout all the country of Israel's inheritance. The deed that prompted that response is condemned in the verse as lewdness and folly.
It was the grave offense of the people of Gibeah, with whom the whole tribe of Benjamin identified. That crime nearly resulted in the extermination of the tribe of Benjamin. The surrounding events reveal Israel's distorted priorities, valuing conventional hospitality and tribal loyalty above women's virtue and justice, yet sin had no excuse. Israel's dark fallen condition here stands in mighty contrast to the miracles and teaching of Jesus recorded in Luke 4:31 through Luke 7, yet both speak of the goodness and mercy of God.