David

“The conduct of the Levite in this transaction is utterly inexplicable. One thing, however, is certain. When the attack was made on the house, the duty of the inmates was to have thrown themselves upon the protection of providence without yielding an iota to the demands of the remorseless ruffians without. If they could not have withstood their violence, but must have been overpowered by superior numbers, they had better have died calling upon God for mercy than to have basely jeopardized the lives of feeble women to appease a ferocious rabble. That would have been the pious chivalry of true Israelites.”
― George Bush, Judges: Notes, Critical and Practical