He said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Arthur Cundall’s preference, expressed in the quotation above, rested on the Septuagint translators’ rendering of Judges 19:2 that is the equivalent of "his concubine was angry with him." However the Hebrew text has "his concubine was unfaithful to him," and this is the preferable reading. As we have noted, the Israelites paid less attention to the Law in the period of the judges than they did while Joshua was alive. It is probable that the concubine had been unfaithful and the Israelites simply did not execute the penalty for that offense that the Law prescribed. The fact that the Levite waited four months to get his wife back suggests that he was not eager to do so.