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CHAPTER XIX
_A Levite and his concubine disagree; and she leaves him and_
_goes to her father's house_, 1, 2.
_He follows to bring her back, and is kindly entertained by her_
_father five days_, 3...
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A CONCUBINE - See the margin. The name does not imply any moral
reproach. A concubine was as much the man’s wife as the woman so
called, though she had not the same rights. See Judges 19:3....
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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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IN THOSE DAYS. In the same days as Ch. Judges 18:1. Soon after the
death of Joshua. Figure of speech _Hysterologia._ App-6.
NO KING. See note on Judges 18:1.
A CERTAIN LEVITE. The house of God neglec...
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_The outrage at Gibeah_
1 _.when there was no king_ See on Judges 17:6.
_on the farther side_ or _recesses_, probably meaning the northern
parts of E.; cf. _the recesses of Lebanon_2 Kings 19:23, als...
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_A LEVITE PASSES THE NIGHT IN GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN: THE MEN OF GIBEAH
ABUSE HIS CONCUBINE TO DEATH: THE LEVITE DIVIDES HER BODY INTO TWELVE
PARTS, WHICH HE SENDS TO THE TWELVE TRIBES._
_Before Christ...
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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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, WHEN THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL,
THAT THERE WAS A CERTAIN LEVITE SOJOURNING ON THE SIDE OF MOUNT
EPHRAIM, WHO TOOK TO HIM A CONCUBINE OUT OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH._
It c...
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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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WHEN _there was_ NO KING] see on Judges 17:6. A CERTAIN LEVITE] see on
Judges 17:7....
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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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וַ יְהִי֙ בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם...
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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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_Ephraim. Some think at Silo, to which place, he says, he was going,
(ver. 18,) though it might be only out of devotion. (Calmet) --- A
wife. Hebrew, "a concubine." Septuagint joins both together, "he...
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CONTENTS
Melancholy views of Israel's transgression still appear, and are
prosecuted in their contents through this Chapter. In the former we
have beheld the daring sin of idolatry; here we are prese...
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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 IN THOSE DAYS, WHEN THERE WAS NO KING IN
ISRAEL,.... The same is observed in Judges 17:6 and refers to the same
times, the times before the judges, between them and the death of
Jo...
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And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel,
that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount
Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
Ver....
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_Who took him a concubine_ Hebrew, _a wife, a concubine_, that is,
such a concubine as was also his wife: called a concubine only because
she was not endowed. Perhaps he had nothing to endow her with,...
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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 in those days, when there was no king in Israel,
when so many things happened which would not have taken place if there
had been some one to enforce law and order in Israel, THAT T...
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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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A CONCUBINE:
_ Heb._ a woman a concubine, or a wife a concubine...
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JUDGES CHAPTER 19 A Levite's concubine runs from him to her father's
house at Beth-lehem; he goeth to fetch her back; is kindly entertained
by her father; he departs, and comes to Gibeah of Benjamin,...
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Judges 19:1 days H3117 king H4428 Israel H3478 certain H376 Levite
H3881 staying H1481 (H8802) remote H3411 mountains...
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Judges 19 . THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE.
This chapter gives an account of the sad story of a Levite and his
concubine, and of the evil consequences following it. It describes how
she played the whore...
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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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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 11:3; 2 Chronicles 11:21; 2 Samuel 16:22; 2 Samuel 19:5;...
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A. concubine — Heb. a wife, a concubine, that is, such a concubine
as was also his wife: called a concubine, only because she was not
endowed. Perhaps he had nothing to endow her with, being himself o...