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Verse Judges 19:25. _SO THE MAN TOOK HIS CONCUBINE_] The word
יחזק _yachazek_, which we here translate simply _took_, signifies
rather to _take_ or _seize by violence_. The woman would not go out to...
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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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If the offer of the host strikes us as immoral, the conduct of the
Levite makes an even worse impression: he sacrifices his
concubine-wife to save himself. The same despicable behaviour appears
in the...
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BUT THE MEN WOULD NOT HEARKEN TO HIM— It is plain, from Joshua 19:5
of the next chapter, that all the particulars of this matter are not
related. The Levite, resolutely bent to defend his own chastity...
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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 THE MAN, THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, WENT OUT UNTO THEM, AND SAID
UNTO THEM, NAY, MY BRETHREN, NAY, I PRAY YOU, DO NOT SO WICKEDLY;
SEEING THAT THIS MAN IS COME INTO MINE HOUSE, DO NOT THIS FOLLY._...
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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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BEHOLD, HERE IS MY DAUGHTER... — The main horror of these verses
lies, and is meant to lie, in the nameless infamy to which these men
had sunk, of whom we can only say,
“Non ragionam di lor ma guarda...
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וְ לֹֽא ־אָב֤וּ הָ אֲנָשִׁים֙ לִ
שְׁמֹ֣עַֽ
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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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The sad narrative of so detestable an action, and issuing from so
detestable a cause, is enough to put to the blush our depraved nature.
Who that reads it but must exclaim, Lord! what is man! And when...
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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 MEN WOULD NOT HEARKEN TO HIM,.... Especially with respect to
his daughter, whom they knew very well, and had no affection for,
perhaps was not handsome enough for them:
SO THE MAN TOOK HIS CO...
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But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine,
and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all
the night until the morning: and when the day began to sprin...
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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 SHAMEFUL ACT OF THE MEN OF GIBEAH...
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But the men would not hearken to him, for even ordinary fornication
did not satisfy their depraved desires; SO THE MAN TOOK HIS CONCUBINE,
AND BROUGHT HER FORTH UNTO THEM, hoping thereby to save himse...
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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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THE MAN TOOK HIS CONCUBINE; being willing to expose her rather than
the daughter of his host, who had expressed such a singular care and
affection for him....
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Judges 19:25 men H582 would H14 (H8804) heed H8085 (H8800) man H376
took H2388 (H8686) concubine...
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Judges 19:25 a
‘But the men would not listen to him, so the man laid hold on his
concubine, and brought her out to them.'
Nothing would at this point divert them from their purpose. They
continued b...
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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 19:22 The “hospitality” offered by Gibeah
was like that of Sodom (compare Genesis 19:1). It is likely the author
patterned this text after the...
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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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Ephesians 4:19; Genesis 4:1; Hosea 10:9; Hosea 7:4; Hosea 9:9;...