_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, WHEN THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL, THAT THERE WAS A CERTAIN LEVITE SOJOURNING ON THE SIDE OF MOUNT EPHRAIM, WHO TOOK TO HIM A CONCUBINE OUT OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH._ It came to pass in those days. The painfully interesting episode that follows, together with the intesti... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS CONCUBINE PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM, AND WENT AWAY FROM HIM UNTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE TO BETHLEHEMJUDAH, AND WAS THERE FOUR WHOLE MONTHS._ Went away from him unto her father's house. The cause of the separation assigned in our version rendered it unlawful for her husband to take her back... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HER HUSBAND AROSE, AND WENT AFTER HER, TO SPEAK FRIENDLY UNTO HER, AND TO BRING HER AGAIN, HAVING HIS SERVANT WITH HIM, AND A COUPLE OF ASSES: AND SHE BROUGHT HIM INTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE: AND WHEN THE FATHER OF THE DAMSEL SAW HIM, HE REJOICED TO MEET HIM._ Went after her, to speak friendly unt... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS FATHER IN LAW, THE DAMSEL'S FATHER, RETAINED HIM; AND HE ABODE WITH HIM THREE DAYS: SO THEY DID EAT AND DRINK, AND LODGED THERE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE AROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE FIFTH DAY TO DEPART: AND THE DAMSEL'S FATHER SAID, COMFORT THINE HEART, I PRAY THEE. AND THEY TARRIED UNTIL AFTERNOON, AND THEY DID EAT BOTH OF THEM._ Tarried (with reluctance) until afternoon - literally, the decline of the day. People in the East, who tak... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE MAN ROSE UP TO DEPART, HE, AND HIS CONCUBINE, AND HIS SERVANT, HIS FATHER IN LAW, THE DAMSEL'S FATHER, SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, NOW THE DAY DRAWETH TOWARD EVENING, I PRAY YOU TARRY ALL NIGHT: BEHOLD, THE DAY GROWETH TO AN END, LODGE HERE, THAT THINE HEART MAY BE MERRY; AND TO MORROW GET... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE MAN WOULD NOT TARRY THAT NIGHT, BUT HE ROSE UP AND DEPARTED, AND CAME OVER AGAINST JEBUS, WHICH IS JERUSALEM; AND THERE WERE WITH HIM TWO ASSES SADDLED, HIS CONCUBINE ALSO WAS WITH HIM._ The man ... departed, and came over against Jebus, х_ YªBUWC_ (H2982), trodden down; a threshing floor.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY WERE BY JEBUS, THE DAY WAS FAR SPENT; AND THE SERVANT SAID UNTO HIS MASTER, COME, I PRAY THEE, AND LET US TURN IN INTO THIS CITY OF THE JEBUSITES, AND LODGE IN IT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIS SERVANT, COME, AND LET US DRAW NEAR TO ONE OF THESE PLACES TO LODGE ALL NIGHT, IN GIBEAH, OR IN RAMAH._ In Gibeah, or in Ramah. The first of these places was five miles northeast, the other from four to five north, of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY PASSED ON AND WENT THEIR WAY; AND THE SUN WENT DOWN UPON THEM WHEN THEY WERE BY GIBEAH, WHICH BELONGETH TO BENJAMIN._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TURNED ASIDE THITHER, TO GO IN AND TO LODGE IN GIBEAH: AND WHEN HE WENT IN, HE SAT HIM DOWN IN A STREET OF THE CITY: FOR THERE WAS NO MAN THAT TOOK THEM INTO HIS HOUSE TO LODGING._ He went in ... sat him down in a street of the city. The towns of Palestine at this remote period could not,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME AN OLD MAN FROM HIS WORK OUT OF THE FIELD AT EVEN, WHICH WAS ALSO OF MOUNT EPHRAIM; AND HE SOJOURNED IN GIBEAH: BUT THE MEN OF THE PLACE WERE BENJAMITES._ There came an old man from his work ... which was also of mount Ephraim - and perhaps his hospitality was quickened by... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HAD LIFTED UP HIS EYES, HE SAW A WAYFARING MAN IN THE STREET OF THE CITY: AND THE OLD MAN SAID, WHITHER GOEST THOU? AND WHENCE COMEST THOU?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YET THERE IS BOTH STRAW AND PROVENDER FOR OUR ASSES; AND THERE IS BREAD AND WINE ALSO FOR ME, AND FOR THY HANDMAID, AND FOR THE YOUNG MAN WHICH IS WITH THY SERVANTS: THERE IS NO WANT OF ANY THING._ There is no want of anything. In answering the kindly inquiries of the old man, the Levite deemed it... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE OLD MAN SAID, PEACE BE WITH THEE; HOWSOEVER LET ALL THY WANTS LIE UPON ME; ONLY LODGE NOT IN THE STREET._ Peace be with thee - the genuine Hebrew and Oriental salutations still in use. ONLY LODGE NOT IN THE STREET. Since this is no rare or singular circumstance in the East (see the note... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO HE BROUGHT HIM INTO HIS HOUSE, AND GAVE PROVENDER UNTO THE ASSES: AND THEY WASHED THEIR FEET, AND DID EAT AND DRINK._ So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses, х_ WAYAABAAL_ (H1101), and mingled (food)] - i:e., chopped straw and barley.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW AS THEY WERE MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY, BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL, BESET THE HOUSE ROUND ABOUT, AND BEAT AT THE DOOR, AND SPAKE TO THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, THE OLD MAN, SAYING, BRING FORTH THE MAN THAT CAME INTO THINE HOUSE, THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM._ Certain sons of Beli... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MAN, THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, WENT OUT UNTO THEM, AND SAID UNTO THEM, NAY, MY BRETHREN, NAY, I PRAY YOU, DO NOT SO WICKEDLY; SEEING THAT THIS MAN IS COME INTO MINE HOUSE, DO NOT THIS FOLLY._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO HIS HOUSE, HE TOOK A KNIFE, AND LAID HOLD ON HIS CONCUBINE, AND DIVIDED HER, TOGETHER WITH HER BONES, INTO TWELVE PIECES, AND SENT HER INTO ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL._ Divided her ... into twelve pieces. The want of a regular government warranted an extraordinary step; and... [ Continue Reading ]