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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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_Gibeah_ Here, as in Isaiah 10:29 b, clearly south of Ramah, now
er-Râm; it may well have occupied the ruined site called Tell
el-Fûl, 2¾ miles N. of Jerusalem. This is the Gibeah of Saul
mentioned in...
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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 HE SAID UNTO HIS SERVANT, COME, AND LET US DRAW NEAR TO ONE OF
THESE PLACES TO LODGE ALL NIGHT, IN GIBEAH, OR IN RAMAH._
In Gibeah, or in Ramah. The first of these places was five miles
northeas...
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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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GIBEAH.. RAMAH] both N. of Jerusalem....
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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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OR IN RAMAH. — This town, now _el-Ram,_ is only two miles beyond
Gibeah. The two places are often mentioned together (Hosea 5:8). The
Levite is naturally anxious to push on homewards as fast as he can...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר לְ נַעֲרֹ֔ו _לְכָ֥ה_† וְ
נִקְרְבָ֖ה...
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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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_Rama was not so far as Gabaa; so that, if they could not travel to
the latter place, they might turn to the former, and lodge all night.
They held on their journey, however, till they came not very l...
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Probably in those days there were no public inns. But yet might not a
Levite, and no doubt his dress indicated the order to which he
belonged, have reasonably expected accommodation from every Israeli...
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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 he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of
these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Ver. 13. _In Gibeah, or in Ramah._] They took up at Gibeah, which is
held t...
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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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And he said unto his servant, Come and let us draw near to one of
these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah or in Ramah, another town
nearby....
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THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
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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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Both which places lay in Benjamin's portion, a little northward from
Jerusalem, and in the road from Bethlehem-judah to Gibeah....
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Judges 19:13 said H559 (H8799) servant H5288 Come H3212 (H8798) near
H7126 (H8799) one H259 places...
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‘ And he said to his servant, ‘come, and let us draw near to one
of these places, and we will lodge in Gibeah or in Ramah.'
So he decided to set off to one of the nearby Israelite towns, either
Gibea...
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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 Samuel 10:26; Hosea 5:8; Isaiah 10:29; Joshua 18:25; Joshua 18:26;...