This story bears some resemblance to the story of Lot (Genesis 19). One difference is that in the Genesis account Lot offered two daughters to the men of Sodom in exchange for two angel's safety, but in text of Judges 19 and 20 a woman is both offered and abused by the men of the city--abused to the point of death.
The Judges 19-20 story seems to verify the claim of Judges 17:6. In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes. Consequently, there is much wickedness afoot in the land.
The Israelis seem to have their own way of dealing with injustice, too: collective action against a tribe that harbors and defends transgressing members. Now then, hand over those scoundrels in Gibeah, so that we may put them to death, and purge the evil from Israel. (Judges 19:13) Ungodly living brings on civil war.
What does ungodly living do to my country and to me?
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