When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
Chapter 19 is a story about love and hate. The major manifestation of love is hospitality. The major manifestation of hate is immorality (lit. what is contrary to manners). Webster’s dictionary defines immoral as "contrary to the moral code of the community." [Note: Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, s.v. "immoral."] The idea that man sets his own standards of morality goes all the way back to the Fall (Genesis 3). Really God sets these standards. He does so in love and for the welfare of humanity, and He reveals them in His Word. When people abandon God’s standards, life breaks down, unravels, and disintegrates.