Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Judges 19:19
servants. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "servant" (Singular).
servants. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "servant" (Singular).
Verse Judges 19:19. _THERE IS BOTH STRAW AND PROVENDER FOR OUR ASSES._] In the countries principally devoted to _pasturage_, there was no _hay_; but as they raised some corn, they took great care of...
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...
_straw and provender_ Similarly Genesis 24:25. After _straw, provender_probably denotes grain. _there is no want of any thing_ Cf. Judges 18:10....
YET THERE IS BOTH STRAW AND PROVENDER FOR OUR ASSES— The laws of hospitality were extremely sacred in ancient times; but the men of Gibeah, as they were grossly abandoned in vice, so were they wholly...
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...
_YET THERE IS BOTH STRAW AND PROVENDER FOR OUR ASSES; AND THERE IS BREAD AND WINE ALSO FOR ME, AND FOR THY HANDMAID, AND FOR THE YOUNG MAN WHICH IS WITH THY SERVANTS: THERE IS NO WANT OF ANY THING._...
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...
STRAW AND PROVENDER. — Comp. Genesis 24:25. All that the Levite asked was shelter. He would provide for all his own wants. THY SERVANTS. — The ordinary language of Eastern obsequiousness....
וְ גַם ־תֶּ֤בֶן גַּם ־מִסְפֹּוא֙ יֵ֣שׁ לַ
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...
Straw. It used to be cut small, as hay was very scarce. (St. Jerome in Isaias xxv.) Hebrew, "straw and provender....
While we pay the tribute of just praise, to the old man, and admire his generosity, let the Reader have the eye of his mind directed to him, of whom we read in the gospel, the good Samaritan, and in h...
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...
YET THERE IS BOTH STRAW AND PROVENDER FOR OUR ASSES,.... Straw to litter them with, and provender to feed them with, which he had brought with him on them: AND THERE IS BREAD AND WINE ALSO FOR ME, AN...
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing....
_Yet there is both straw_, &c. The Levite here acquaints the man that he had with him all things necessary both for himself and his concubine, his servant and his asses; so that he should not burden a...
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...
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants; there is no want of anything; they...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 19:19 have H3426 straw H8401 fodder H4554 donkeys H2543 bread H3899 wine H3196 servant H519 man H5288 servant
“ Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.” T...
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 19:16 OLD MAN... SOJOURNING IN GIBEAH. The Levite had thought it would be safer to stay in Gibeah than in Jerusalem (see note on vv. 10–12). Yet in Gibeah he found hospitality fr...
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...
Genesis 18:27; Genesis 24:32; Genesis 27:28; Genesis 3:19...