WHICH WAS ALSO OF MOUNT EPHRAIM - i. e., of the country of the Levite. This single giver of hospitality was himself a stranger and sojourner at Gibeah....
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...
_and he sojourned_ Cf. Judges 17:7 _n._The only person that paid any attention to the travellers was not a native of the place: it was the same at Sodom, Genesis 19:1 f. The last words of the verse ar...
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...
_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 m...
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...
THE FIELD] i.e. the open country surrounding the village....
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...
WHICH WAS ALSO OF MOUNT EPHRAIM. — He was therefore a fellow-countryman of the Levite, but his hospitable feelings were aroused before he had been informed of this fact. TOWARD THE SIDE OF MOUNT EPHR...
וְ הִנֵּ֣ה ׀ אִ֣ישׁ זָקֵ֗ן בָּ֣א מִֽן ־מַעֲשׂ
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...
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] (e) Benjamites. (e) Or, the c...
_Jemini. That is, Benjamin. (Challoner) --- Chap. iii. 15._...
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. The sacred historian,...
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...
AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME AN OLD MAN FROM HIS WORK OUT OF THE FIELD AT EVEN,.... Which is the time that men come from their labour, and take their rest; and this man, though a man in years, and of some...
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. Ver. 16. _There c...
_Also of mount Ephraim_ Whence likewise the Levite was, which inclined him to show the more kindness to his countryman. _But the men of the place were Benjamites_ This was indeed one of the cities bel...
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...
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, he was not a citizen of the town; BUT THE MEN OF THE PLACE WERE...
THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
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...
OF MOUNT EPHRAIM; whence also the Levite was, which obliged and inclined him to show the more kindness to his countryman. THE MEN OF THE PLACE WERE BENJAMITES: this was indeed one of thee cities belon...
Judges 19:16 old H2205 man H376 came H935 (H8804) work H4639 field H7704 evening H6153 also H376 mountains...
Judges 19:16 a ‘And behold, there came an old man from his work, from the country in the evening. Now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah.' As it happened an old ma...
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...
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 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Ecclesiastes 1:13;...
Ephraim — Whence also the Levite was, which enclined him to shew the more kindness to his country — man. Benjamites — This was indeed one of the cities belonging to the priests; but the cities which w...