Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Judges 19:11
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Verse Judges 19:11. _WHEN THEY_ WERE _BY JEBUS_] This was _Jerusalem_, in which, though after the death of Joshua it appears to have been partly conquered by the tribe of Judah, yet the Jebusites kep...
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...
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 WHEN THEY WERE BY JEBUS, THE DAY WAS FAR SPENT; AND THE SERVANT SAID UNTO HIS MASTER, COME, I PRAY THEE, AND LET US TURN IN INTO THIS CITY OF THE JEBUSITES, AND LODGE IN IT._ No JFB commentary o...
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...
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...
THE DAY WAS FAR SPENT. — Jerusalem is only two hours distant from Bethlehem. The father of the woman, by his unwise neglect to “speed the parting guest,” had greatly added to the perils of their journ...
הֵ֣ם עִם ־יְב֔וּס וְ הַ יֹּ֖ום רַ֣ד
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...
This Gibeah was a city in the tribe of Benjamin, and it was directly on the road towards Shiloh. The resolution therefore of the Levite app ears to be very proper, for certainly there should seem to b...
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 WHEN THEY WERE BY JEBUS THE DAY WAS FAR SPENT,.... Or "was gone down very much" q, the sun was going down apace, and near setting: AND THE SERVANT SAID UNTO HIS MASTER, COME, I PRAY THEE: he prop...
Judges 19:11 [And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. Ver....
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 when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent, it was late afternoon; AND THE SERVANT SAID UNTO HIS MASTER, COME, I PRAY THEE, AND LET US TURN IN INTO THIS CITY OF THE JEBUSITES, for the city was...
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...
Judges 19:11 Jebus H2982 day H3117 far H3966 spent H7286 (H8804) servant H5288 said H559 (H8799) master...
‘ And when they were by Jebus the day was far spent. And the servant said to his master, “Come, I pray you, and let us turn in to this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.' “WAS FAR SPENT.” Litera...
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 19:10 JEBUS (THAT IS, JERUSALEM). Jerusalem was then in the hands of the Jebusites and therefore is referred to as a CITY OF FOREIGNERS (see note on 1:8)....
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...
2 Samuel 5:6; Genesis 10:16; Joshua 15:63; Judges 1:21; Judges 19:10...