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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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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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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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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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GAVE PROVENDER UNTO THE ASSES. — Notice the humane Eastern custom of
attending first the wants of the animals.
THEY WASHED THEIR FEET. — One of the first necessities for personal
comfort after a journ...
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וַ יְבִיאֵ֣הוּ לְ בֵיתֹ֔ו
_וַ_†_יָּ֖בָל_† לַ...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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SO HE BROUGHT HIM INTO HIS HOUSE,.... Showed him the way to it, and in
a kind and friendly manner introduced him, and bid him welcome:
AND GAVE PROVENDER UNTO THE ASSES; this is mentioned first, it b...
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_So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses:
and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink._
Ver. 21. _And they washed their feet._] So they usually did in those
hot coun...
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_Let all thy wants lie upon me_ It matters not whether thou wantest
nothing or every thing; I will take care to supply all thy wants.
_They washed their feet_ As they used to do to travellers in those...
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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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So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses;
and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink, enjoying the
hospitality of the old man. True hospitality is a virtue which cann...
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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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THEY WASHED THEIR FEET, as they used to do to travellers in these hot
countries, GENESIS 18:4, GENESIS 19:2 24:32, &c....
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Judges 19:21 brought H935 (H8686) house H1004 fodder H1101 (H8799)
donkeys H2543 washed H7364 (H8799) feet...
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‘ So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses fodder, and
they washed their feet, and ate and drank.'
With some relief and gratitude they accepted the old man's offer and
he led them to his...
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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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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...
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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 25:41; 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Samuel 11:8; Genesis 18:4; Gene
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Washed — As they used to do to travellers in those hot countries....