Judges chapters 17-21 consist of two narratives. Judges 17-18 deals with religious disorder through the story of Micah’s family in Mount Ephraim and the tribe of Dan. Judges 19-21 contains the story of a civil war between the tribe of Benjamin and all of Israel due to a sexual mob violence suffered by a Levite’s concubine. Drawing on James Scott’s theory of the “hidden transcript,” this study aims to identify political groups in conflict with the period in which the texts were written. Judges 19-21 intentionally uses symbolic place names and settings for Saul to not only undermine Saul’s tribe of Benjamin, but also to give the tribe of Judah justification to attack the tribe of Benjamin. However, Judg 19-21 cannot be viewed as a confrontation between David and Saul as individuals, but rather as a community. The conflict between the tribes of Benjamin and of Judah intensified during the period of the rise of interest in the tribe of Benjamin, or land, and the captivity of the dynasty of Judah. Therefore, the date of Judg 19-21 is shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon. After the fall of Jerusalem, Babylon appointed Gedaliah as the governor of Judah, and he made the land of Benjamin his administrative center. Judges 19-21 should be seen as a “hidden transcript” that emphasizes the legitimacy of the Babylonian captive community over the surviving Jews in the land of Benjamin.