Why sacrifice a daughter to protect a stranger (19:24)?
Influenced by the moral decay in his culture, the old man’s priorities were obviously misplaced. As people defined their values for themselves (17:6), society sank as low as human depravity would allow it to go. Though the old man’s values said homosexual rape was wrong, he considered the rape of his daughter a necessity to protect his guest. In those days women were often treated as property–objects rather than people.
