With him. Hebrew, "her husband arose and followed her to speak to her heart, to bring her back," Genesis xxxiv. 3. He shewed great condescension and love, (Haydock) and she received him with suitable sentiments of regard, and did not become more haughty, as women, who perceive themselves to be courted, frequently do. If she had been married to another, she could not have been received by her former husband.
Verse Judges 19:3. _HE REJOICED TO MEET HIM._] He hoped to be able completely to reconcile his daughter and her husband....
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...
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...
FRIENDLY. Hebrew "to her heart". affectionately....
_to speak kindly unto her_ See marg., and cf. Genesis 34:3; Genesis 50:21; Isaiah 40:2. _to bring her again_ More natural than the alternative reading given in the marg. _a couple of asses_ for the n...
AND HER HUSBAND AROSE, AND WENT AFTER HER, TO SPEAK FRIENDLY UNTO HER— In the original, _to speak her heart,_ to refer to their former endearments, and to ask how she could be so unkind to him, and so...
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...
_AND HER HUSBAND AROSE, AND WENT AFTER HER, TO SPEAK FRIENDLY UNTO HER, AND TO BRING HER AGAIN, HAVING HIS SERVANT WITH HIM, AND A COUPLE OF ASSES: AND SHE BROUGHT HIM INTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE: AND WHE...
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...
HE REJOICED] feeling the separation to be a disgrace....
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...
TO SPEAK FRIENDLY UNTO HER. — Literally, _to speak to her heart_ — _i.e.,_ to bring about a kindly reconciliation (Genesis 34:3; Genesis 1:21; Ruth 2:13). A COUPLE OF ASSES. — One was meant to convey...
וַ יָּ֨קָם אִישָׁ֜הּ וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ אַחֲרֶ֗יהָ ל
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
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...
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...
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when...
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...
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...
AND HER HUSBAND AROSE,.... From the place where he lived: AND WENT AFTER HER; to Bethlehemjudah, where her father lived: TO SPEAK COMFORTABLY TO HER "or to her heart" l; having heard perhaps that sh...
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, [and] to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and wh...
_Played the whore against him_ Against her faith given to him. _Went away_ Either for fear of punishment, or because her heart was alienated from him; wherein not only she sinned, but her father, by c...
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...
And her husband arose, he set out from home, AND WENT AFTER HER, TO SPEAK FRIENDLY UNTO HER, to speak to her heart, to show her that he carried no grudge against her, AND TO BRING HER AGAIN, HAVING HI...
THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...
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...
FRIENDLY UNTO HER: _ Heb._ to her heart...
TO SPEAK FRIENDLY UNTO HER, or, to speak to her heart, i.e. kindly and comfortably, as that phrase is taken, GE 1 21 HO 2:14, to offer, her pardon and reconciliation, and restitution to her former sta...
Judges 19:3 husband H376 arose H6965 (H8799) went H3212 (H8799) after H310 speak H1696 (H8763) kindly...
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...
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...
_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...
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. ⇐
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 19:3 An elaborate ritual of hospitality takes place, in sharp contrast to what follows. ⇐ ⇔
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...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 19:1 WHEN THERE WAS NO KING (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 21:25). It appears from
[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...
Galatians 6:1; Genesis 34:3; Genesis 50:21; Hosea 2:14; Jeremiah 3:1;...
Friendly — To offer her pardon and reconciliation....