Then came the woman, and fell down, &c. Namely, dead; killed partly with grief of heart, and partly with excessive abuse. Thus the sin she formerly chose, (Judges 19:2,) is now her destruction; and though her husband pardoned her, God would punish her, at least as to this life.
Verse Judges 19:26. _FELL DOWN AT THE DOOR_] She had strength to reach the door, but not to knock for admittance: when she reached the door she fell down dead! The reason of this abominable and horri...
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...
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THE WOMAN—FELL DOWN AT THE DOOR OF THE MAN'S HOUSE— She fell down dead through shame, grief, and the scandalous abuse which she had received from these monsters. For the emphasis of the word _Lord, s_...
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 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._...
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...
THEN CAME THE WOMAN.... — It would be scarcely possible to enhance the depth of pathos and of horror which the sacred writer throws into these simple words. If to the wretched woman punishment had com...
וַ תָּבֹ֥א הָ אִשָּׁ֖ה לִ פְנֹ֣ות הַ
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...
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and (i) fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light. (i) She fell down dead, as in (Judges 19:27)....
Lord. So wives styled their husbands, 1 Peter iii. 5. --- Down dead through fatigue, (Menochius) shame, and grief. (Josephus) --- She had not power to knock. (Calmet) --- Though the former misconduct...
The sad narrative of so detestable an action, and issuing from so detestable a cause, is enough to put to the blush our depraved nature. Who that reads it but must exclaim, Lord! what is man! And when...
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...
THEN CAME THE WOMAN IN THE DAWNING OF THE DAY,.... When those wicked wretches who had abused her had left her, having had her from place to place, at some distance from the house out of which she was...
_Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light._ Ver. 26. _Fell down._] Dead. These villains had taken their lust...
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...
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, just as it was getting light, AND FELL DOWN AT THE DOOR OF THE MAN'S HOUSE WHERE HER LORD, her husband, WAS, TILL IT WAS LIGHT, deprived of her life by t...
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...
FELL DOWN, to wit, dead, as the following words show, and as that word is oft used, as EXODUS 19:21 PSALMS 82:7, PSALMS 91:7 HOSEA 5:5; killed, partly wit
Judges 19:26 woman H802 came H935 (H8799) day H1242 dawning H6437 (H8800) down H5307 (H8799) door...
‘ Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house, where her lord was, until it was light.' The woman struggled back to the house but it would seem that sh...
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 Peter 3:6; Genesis 18:12; Judges 19:27; Judges 19:3...
Fell down — Namely, dead; killed partly with grief of heart, and partly with excessive abuse. Thus the sin she formerly chose, Judges 19:2, is now her destruction; and though her husband pardoned her,...