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Verse Judges 19:15. _NO MAN - TOOK THEM INTO HIS HOUSE TO LODGING._]
There was probably no _inn_ or house of _public entertainment_ in this
place, and therefore they could not have a lodging unless f...
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A STREET - Probably the square or place within the gates, where courts
were held, bargains made, and where the chief men and strangers
congregated....
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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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STREET. open place....
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_and he went in, and sat him down_ The verbs should probably be read
as plurals.
_the street_ Rather BROAD PLACE (Judges 19:17_; Judges 19:20_),
Genesis 19:2 b, usually near the gate,...
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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 THEY TURNED ASIDE THITHER, TO GO IN AND TO LODGE IN GIBEAH: AND
WHEN HE WENT IN, HE SAT HIM DOWN IN A STREET OF THE CITY: FOR THERE
WAS NO MAN THAT TOOK THEM INTO HIS HOUSE TO LODGING._
He went...
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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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IN A STREET. — Rather, _in the open place_ (_Rechob_) — _i.e.,_
the square or market-place of the city, often a space _outside_ the
walls (Deuteronomy 13:16). (Comp. Genesis 19:1; “The stranger did
no...
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וַ יָּסֻ֣רוּ שָׁ֔ם לָ בֹ֖וא לָ ל֣וּן
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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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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 THEY TURNED ASIDE THITHER TO GO IN AND LODGE IN GIBEAH,....
Instead of going right forward, and passing by Gibeah, over against
which they were, they turned out of their road, and went into the ci...
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And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: and
when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for [there
was] no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Ver. 1...
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_He sat down in the street of the city_ There being no public inns in
that country in those days, this was the general custom. Travellers
sat down in the streets till some person invited them into his...
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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 they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah; and
when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city, in the open
place or square of the city, where they expected some resident...
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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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Though they were soft and effeminate in other respects, yet they were
hard-hearted towards strangers or indigent persons. Either there were
no public houses to receive and entertain travellers, as may...
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Judges 19:15 aside H5493 (H8799) in H935 (H8800) lodge H3885 (H8800)
Gibeah H1390 in H935 ...
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‘ And they turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And he
went in and sat himself down in the square of the city, for there was
no man who took them into his house to lodge.' '
Instead of goi...
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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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Genesis 18:2; Genesis 19:2; Genesis 19:3; Hebrews 13:2; Judges 19:18;...
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To lodge — Though they were soft and effeminate in other respects,
yet they were hard — hearted to strangers, and at that time there
were no public — houses in that country....