The Levite and his concubine stopped in Gibeah, a city of the Benjamite tribe, to spend the night. Some local men surrounded the house and demanded that the Levite be brought out so they could rape him. Instead, the homeowner offered his daughter and the Levite's concubine. The men raped the concubine throughout the night until dawn, when she crawled to the door of the house and died. The Levite cut her body into pieces and sent them throughout Israel to demonstrate the depravity that the tribes had sunk to.