Judges 20:6

all the country of the inheritance of Israel We hardly expect inheritancein plain prose; contrast Judges 19:29. The word may be a later insertion.

they have committed lewdness Similarly Hosea 6:9; Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 22:9; lit. evil purpose, i.e. unchastity; in this sense the word is frequent in the Law of Holiness and in Ezekiel (see Driver,

Introd, p. 49, No. 11). LXX. cod. A, Luc. omit lewdness and, perhaps rightly; the word may have been added to emphasize the iniquity.