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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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JEBUS. At that time still occupied by Canaanites. See Joshua 10:1;
Joshua 15:63....
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_Jebus_ Only here and in 1 Chronicles 11:4-5 as the old name of
Jerusalem. Long before the Israelite occupation, however, the Amarna
tablets _c._1400 b.c. refer to the city as Urusalim (Nos. 180, 181,...
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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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_BUT THE MAN WOULD NOT TARRY THAT NIGHT, BUT HE ROSE UP AND DEPARTED,
AND CAME OVER AGAINST JEBUS, WHICH IS JERUSALEM; AND THERE WERE WITH
HIM TWO ASSES SADDLED, HIS CONCUBINE ALSO WAS WITH HIM._
The...
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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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JEBUS] see Judges 1:21 : also Joshua 15:8; 1 Chronicles 11:4. The
journey from Bethlehem would not take more than two hours.
12. See on Judges
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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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JEBUS, WHICH IS JERUSALEM. — See Judges 1:8; Joshua 15:8.
SADDLED. — Rather, _loaded_ (Vulg., _onustos_)_.
_...
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וְ לֹֽא ־אָבָ֤ה הָ אִישׁ֙ לָ ל֔וּן
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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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Jebus was about six short miles from Bethlehem, and as many from
Gabaa. It had not yet fallen into the hands of Juda (Calmet) and
Benjamin, (Haydock) or they had been expelled again, so that the old
i...
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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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BUT THE MAN WOULD NOT TARRY THAT NIGHT,.... He was determined upon his
journey; he perceived there was no end of the solicitations of his
father-in-law, and did not know how long he intended to detain...
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But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed,
and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem; and [there were]
with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him....
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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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But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed,
and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem, for the road from
Bethlehem to the north passed by Jerusalem; AND THERE WERE WITH...
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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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OVER AGAINST JEBUS:
_ Heb._ to over against Jebus...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 19:10 man H376 willing H14 (H8804) night H3885 (H8800) rose
H6965 (H8799) departed H3212 ...
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Judges 19:10 a
‘But the man would not linger that night. But he rose up and
departed '
This time he was determined on his journey. He saw that this could go
on for ever, and realised that his father...
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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 19:10 JEBUS (THAT IS, JERUSALEM). Jerusalem
was then in the hands of the Jebusites and therefore is referred to as
a CITY OF FOREIGNERS (see note on 1:8)....
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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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2 Samuel 5:6; Joshua 15:63; Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:28; Judges 1:8...