Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 19:22
Merry — That is, refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. Sons of belial — Children of the devil, wicked and licentious men.
Merry — That is, refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. Sons of belial — Children of the devil, wicked and licentious men.
Verse Judges 19:22. _SONS OF BELIAL_] Profligate fellows. Deuteronomy 13:13. _THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM._] See Genesis 19:5. These were genuine sodomites as to their practice; sons of Belial, rasc
2. ISRAEL'S MORAL CONDITION AND THE WAR ON BENJAMIN CHAPTER 19 The Levite and His Concubine _ 1. The Levite and the unfaithful woman (Judges 19:1)_ 2. The fate of the concubine (Judges 19:22) The r...
JUDGES 19-21. In the story of the outrage of Gibeah, there is a combination of history and midrash. Hosea (Judges 9:9) makes allusion to the days of Gibeah, as a time of notorious moral depravity in I...
SONS OF BELIAL. worthless scoundrels, sons of the devil. DOOR. Like Sodom (Genesis 19:4),. sign of the moral corruption which follows apostasy and accompanies idolatry....
_sons of Belial_ Marg. _sons of worthlessness_, as in Judges 20:13; Deuteronomy 13:13; 1 Samuel 25:17; 1 Samuel 25:25 etc., takin
BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, &C.— As many circumstances of this horrid affair are very similar to those in Genesis 19., we refer to the comment on that place....
The Crime at Gibeah and Its Punishment Judges 19:1 to Judges 21:25 _The Levite and His Concubine Judges 19:1-30_ And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a...
_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,...
THE WICKEDNESS OF GIBEAH A Levite and his concubine meet with foul treatment at Gibeah, a town of Benjamin. The indignation of the other tribes is roused against the Benjamites. This chapter gives th...
SONS OF BELIAL] The Hebrew means simply 'worthless men' or 'rascals.' Belial is not a proper name: cp. 1 Samuel 1:16). 23. The old man dreads being compelled to violate the laws of Eastern hospitalit...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 19 V1 At that time, *Israel’s people had no king. A man from Levi’s *tribe lived in the hills. These were where Ephraim’s *tribe was. The part where...
SONS OF BELIAL. — It is only by a deeply-rooted misconception that Belial is written with a capital. The word is not the name (as is supposed) of an evil spirit, but an ordinary noun, “sons of worthle...
הֵמָּה֮ מֵיטִיבִ֣ים אֶת ־לִבָּם֒ וְ הִנֵּה֩ א
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
The story of the Levite occupies three Chapter s and is again a mirror held up to the times, revealing startling moral conditions and showing the conflict of good and evil among them. In considering t...
They stayed in the marketplace of Gibeah because no one invited them in for the night. At last, an old man, also from Ephraim, invited them in to receive food, a night's lodging and provisions for the...
[Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] (g) beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the ol...
That is, &c. An interpretation of the Vulgate. Belial is sometimes rendered "devilish, apostate," &c. Septuagint, "lawless, or transgressors." (Menochius) --- Aquila, "rebels." Symmachus, "libertines,...
I would be led to hope, that the mirth here spoken of was sacred mirth. There is no real joy but the joy of the Holy Ghost; and this is the kingdom of God. Romans 14:17....
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21. The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of the...
NOW AS THEY WERE MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY,.... With a glass of wine after supper, and conversing together in a cheerful manner about their country and friends: BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN S...
Judges 19:22 [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 hous...
_As they were making their hearts merry_ That is, refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. _Behold, certain sons of Belial_ Children of the devil, wicked and licentious men. _Bring f...
1 A Leuite goeth to Bethlehem to fetch home his wife. 16 An old man entertaineth him at Gibeah. 22 The Gibeonites abuse his concubine to death. 29 He diuideth her into twelue pieces to send them to...
Now, as they were making their hearts merry, as they became better acquainted during the evening meal, BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL, worthless, profitless, vicious fools, among...
THE SHAMEFUL ACT OF THE MEN OF GIBEAH...
ANOTHER LEVITE'S DIVERSION (vv. 1:21) The history of a different Levite was involved in the moral corruption that afflicted Israel in the time of the Judges. We are reminded in verse 1 that there wa...
MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY, i.e. refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL; wicked and licentious men: see DEUTERONOMY 13:13. THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM; an ambiguous...
Judges 19:22 enjoying H3820 H3190 (H8688) certain H582 men H582 city H5892 perverted H1121 H1100 surrounded...
Judges 19:22 a ‘And as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, beating at the door --.' “MAKING -- MERRY.” With food an...
CONTENTS: The Levite and his concubine. Wickedness of Gibeonites. CHARACTERS: Levite, concubine, her father. CONCLUSION: Because men like not to retain God in their knowledge, God gives them up to vi...
Judges 19:1. _In those days,_ while Phinehas was highpriest, and in the first generation after Joshua's death. He is called her husband, Judges 19:3; and it was adultery for a woman so espoused to con...
_Whither goest thou?_ and whence comest thou? THE PAST AND THE FUTURE These two questions were usually proposed of old to the traveller, by the inhabitants of any district through which he might be...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 19:1 In__ one of the most sordid stories in the Bible, rape, murder, and cruelty lead to the death of an innocent woman and, eventually, to civil war. ⇐
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 19:22 The “hospitality” offered by Gibeah was like that of Sodom (compare Genesis 19:1). It is likely the author patterned this text after the...
A TRAGIC CHAPTER IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY (Judges 19:1.) _HOMILETICS_ This chapter contains the history of an unmitigated abomination. Perhaps the best comment upon it is to pass it by. But nothing in hu...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 19:1 WHEN THERE WAS NO KING (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 21:25). It appears from
[Now again, in chapter nineteen it says,] It came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel (Judges 19:1), Now no king in Israel. You see Israel was intended by God to be a theocracy. Go...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Samuel 1:16; 1 Samuel 10:27; 1 Samuel 2:12;...