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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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_AND WHEN HE HAD LIFTED UP HIS EYES, HE SAW A WAYFARING MAN IN THE
STREET OF THE CITY: AND THE OLD MAN SAID, WHITHER GOEST THOU? AND
WHENCE COMEST THOU?_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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וַ יִּשָּׂ֣א עֵינָ֗יו וַ יַּ֛רְא אֶת
־הָ
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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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AND WHEN HE HAD LIFTED UP HIS EYES,.... For it may be, as he came out
of the field, he was musing and meditating with his eyes downwards
directed, but coming into the city looked up:
HE SAW A WAYFARI...
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And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the
street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and
whence comest thou?
Ver. 17. _Whither goest thou? and whence comest...
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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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THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
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And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the
street of the city, feeling the lack of hospitality in this city of
Israel; AND THE OLD MAN, mindful of the love toward the stranger
e...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 19:17 raised H5375 (H8799) eyes H5869 saw H7200 (H8799)
traveler H732 (H8802) H376 square...
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‘ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the city
square, and the old man said, ‘Where are you going to, and where
have you come from?'
Lifting up the eyes is merely a phrase indicati...
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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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Genesis 16:8; Genesis 32:17...