Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Judges 19:8
Verse Judges 19:8. And they tarried until afternoon] Merely that they might avoid the heat of the day, which would have been very inconvenient in travelling.
Verse Judges 19:8. And they tarried until afternoon] Merely that they might avoid the heat of the day, which would have been very inconvenient in travelling.
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...
_on the fifth day_ See note on Judges 19:5. _and tarry ye_ or _wait_, to avoid confusion with the different word rendered _tarry all night_in Judges 19:6_; Judges 19:9_. Some mss. of the LXX read and...
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 HE AROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE FIFTH DAY TO DEPART: AND THE DAMSEL'S FATHER SAID, COMFORT THINE HEART, I PRAY THEE. AND THEY TARRIED UNTIL AFTERNOON, AND THEY DID EAT BOTH OF THEM._ Tarrie...
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...
AND THEY TARRIED UNTIL AFTERNOON. — The verb is perhaps an imperative: _and linger_ (as in Isa. (19:9) _till the day turns._ So the LXX., Chaldee, and Vulg. take it....
וַ יַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם בַּ † בֹּ֜קֶר בַּ †...
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...
And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, (b) Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. (b)...
_Advanced. Hebrew, "and they tarried until the evening." Septuagint, "rest till the day decline." (Haydock) --- He wishes them to wait till the hear of the day be over. (Calmet) --- When he had obtain...
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...
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 HE ROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE FIFTH DAY TO DEPART,.... With a full intention to take his leave of his father, and be gone: AND THE DAMSEL'S FATHER SAID, COMFORT THINE HEART, I PRAY THEE; wi...
And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. Ver. 8....
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...
And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father, still with the same excess of hospitality, SAID, COMFORT THINE HEART, I PRAY THEE. AND THEY TARRIED UNTIL AFTERNO...
THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
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...
UNTIL AFTERNOON: _ Heb._ till the day declined...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 19:8 early H7925 (H8686) morning H1242 fifth H2549 day H3117 depart H3212 (H8800) womans H5291 father...
‘ And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart. And the damsel's father said, “Comfort your heart, I pray you, stay until the day declines.” And they did eat, both of them ' This time...
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 19:3 An elaborate ritual of hospitality takes place, in sharp contrast to what follows. ⇐ ⇔
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...