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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...
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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...
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The doublets and repetitions in this and the following verses may at
first sight appear to be due to the carelessness of a narrator who did
not pay much attention to literary correctness; more probabl...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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EARLY IN THE MORNING. — Except in winter, most journeys are
performed in the early morning or late evening, in order to avoid the
burning heat.
COMFORT THINE HEART. — Literally, _Prop up thy heart,_...
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וַֽ יְהִי֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הָ רְבִיעִ֔י...
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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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...
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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...
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There is somewhat very interesting in family happiness. The Lord hath
entwined the heart of man to man. And in the nearer connections of
life, the knot is drawn yet closer. But as to all these creatur...
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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...
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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...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE FOURTH DAY,.... The time the Levite had
agreed to stay being up:
WHEN THEY AROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING the Levite, his concubine and
servant, in order to set out on their jo...
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And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the
morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto
his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, an...
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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...
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THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
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And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the
morning, that he rose up to depart; and the damsel's father said unto
his son-in-law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, a...
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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...
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COMFORT:
_ Heb._ strengthen...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 19:5 a
‘And it happened on the fourth day that they arose early in the
morning, and he rose up to depart.' The necessary time for fulfilling
all the formalities had now passed. Seemingly it wa...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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.
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 19:3 An elaborate ritual of hospitality takes
place, in sharp contrast to what follows.
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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...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 19:1
WHEN THERE WAS NO KING (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 21:25). It
appears from
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[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...
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1 Kings 13:7; 1 Samuel 14:27; 1 Samuel 30:12; Acts 9:19; Genesis 18:5