Judges 19:22 says. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.  While the old man and his guest were inside making merry, or I believe enjoying themselves, the men of the city surrounded the house demanding that the old man send the visiting man out so that they could have sex with him.  Sounds a lot like the men of Sodom and their demand that Lot send the angels out to them.  Evil in the world never really goes away, but is always lurking just beyond the surface when it is not being displayed outwardly.  Verse twenty-three states, And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.  The master of the house said the man was under his protection and begged the men of the city to not do what he called this folly.  Of course, he was trying to reason with a mob, and this is never easy to do.  Sometimes, the very fact that there are great numbers behind an action makes those participating feel that they have the right to do whatever they want to do.  Verse twenty-four declares, Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.  The master of the house was willing to send his daughter and the visitors concubine out to the men and allow them to do whatever they wanted to do with them to keep them from doing this great evil as he called it.  As I have said before, this was not a good time to be a female, since they had no rights and were often seen as being of little value.  Of course, this is still true in many parts of the world today and by some people even in America.  We are not told how the visiting man felt about this, but it seems he may have only been concerned with his own safety, as the next verse seems to verify.  Verse twenty-five states, 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.  The man may have gone to a lot of trouble to reclaim his concubine, but he was willing to sacrifice her to help ensure his own safety.  As followers of Christ, and this man was one of God's chosen people, we cannot sacrifice the safety and well being of others simply to ensure our own.  We must stand against evil, even if it costs us everything.  The woman was abused all night.  Verse twenty-six says, 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 next morning, the woman made it back to the house and fell down at the door.  She tried to get back to what should have been a place of safety, but I believe that she would have had to doubt it being so, but where else did she have to go.  Verse twenty-seven adds, And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.  The implication is that the man had slept that night and was going to leave the next morning without the woman, his concubine.  It may be that after what he had sent her out to have happen to her that he no longer wanted her in his life.  We cannot just write people out of our life if they have had terrible things happen to them, especially if we are responsible for these things happening.  Verse twenty-eight declares, And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.  The man seemed to have little concern for her.  he simply said get up and let us be going.  She didn't answer, and Matthew Henry says she had died there on the threshold of what she thought would have been a place to find help and comfort.  Hopefully, people today in need of salvation will not die on the threshold of redemption.  The man put her body on one of the asses and took it with him.  Verse twenty-nine states, And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.  When he got home, the man cut the woman's body into twelve pieces and sent the parts to all the tribes of Israel.  Matthew Henry says this was done so that all the people of Israel would know of the evil thing that had been done by the tribe of Benjamin.  This man had passed by a closer city to get to what he felt would be the safety in a city of one of the tribes of Israel, and then this great sin had occurred there.  We may think that we can find safety in certain places in the world today, but the only real safety is in putting our faith in Christ as our everlasting Savior and Lord.  Verse thirty declares, And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.  The man sent word to the rest of the people of Israel to let them know what had happened to the woman and to consider what it meant about certain ones of the people of Israel.