Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Judges 19:2
Played the whore against him - Perhaps only meaning that she ran away from him, and left him, for she returned to her father’s house.
Played the whore against him - Perhaps only meaning that she ran away from him, and left him, for she returned to her father’s house.
Verse Judges 19:2. _PLAYED THE WHORE_] Neither the _Vulgate, Septuagint,_ _Targum_, nor _Josephus_, understand this word as implying any act of conjugal infidelity on the woman's part. They merely st...
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...
FOUR WHOLE MONTHS. Hebrew "days, four months", so some think. "a year and four months"....
_played the harlot against him_ The text is open to suspicion. LXX. cod. A reads _was angry with him_; this suits the context, which implies a quarrel, but not unfaithfulness, on the woman's part; she...
AND HIS CONCUBINE PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM— The Chaldee renders this, _she despised him,_ &c. the LXX, _she separated herself from him,_ with which Josephus agrees. It is probable, that this is th...
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 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 ca...
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...
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...
FOUR WHOLE MONTHS. — Literally, _days, four months,_ which some interpret to mean “a year (see Note on Judges 17:10) and four months.” The incident has, however, little bearing on the general story....
וַ תִּזְנֶ֤ה עָלָיו֙ פִּֽילַגְשֹׁ֔ו וַ תֵּ֤לֶךְ...
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...
A Levite living in the remote part of the mountains of Ephraim took a woman from Bethlehem to be his concubine, which is like a wife only without the same rights. She was unfaithful to him and returne...
Left him. Hebrew Thozne. Now tizne, (Du Hamel) "his concubine, fell into fornication against (Junius improperly translates with) him." Chaldean, "She despised went from him." Septuagint, "She was vexe...
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. I think it probable, that though she is called his c...
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 HIS CONCUBINE PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM,.... Was unfaithful to him and his bed, and broke the covenant and agreement between them; or "with him" i, while she was with him in the house; or "befo...
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. Ver. 2. _And his concubine played the whore against....
_Played the whore against him_ Against her faith given to him. _Went away_ Either for fear of punishment, or because her heart was alienated from him; wherein not only she sinned, but her father, by c...
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...
THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
And his concubine played the whore against him, beyond him, she became unfaithful to the man whom she had willingly followed, AND WENT AWAY FROM HIM UNTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE TO BETHLEHEM-JUDAH, probabl...
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...
FOUR WHOLE MONTHS: Or, a year and four months...
AGAINST HIM, i.e. against her faith given to him, or to his wrong; or, _with him_, i.e. in his house; or whilst she lived with him, which is opposed to her _going away_, which here follows. WENT AWAY...
Judges 19:2 concubine H6370 harlot H2181 (H8799) away H3212 (H8799) fathers H1 house H1004 Bethlehem H1035 Judah...
Judges 19:2 a ‘And his concubine played the harlot against him.' That is, she was unfaithful to him (compare Deuteronomy Genesis 38:24; Genesis 22:21; Ho
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. ⇐
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...
Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:28; Leviticus 21:9...
Against him — That is, against her faith given to him. Went away — Either for fear of punishment; or, because her heart was alienated from him; wherein not only she sinned, but her father by connivanc...