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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Judges 19:2

Against him, i.e. against her faith given to him, or to his wrong; or, with him, i.e. in his house; or whilst she lived with him, which is opposed to her going away, which here follows. Went away from him; either for fear of his severe rebukes or punishment, or because her heart was alienated from him. Four whole months, Heb. some days, to wit, four months; or, a year (so days commonly signify) and four months; wherein not only site sinned, but her father by some indulgence and connivance at her sin, and neglect of just endeavours for her reconciliation to her husband, the ill effects whereof he speedily felt, in the loss of his daughter in so dreadful a manner.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 19:2. _PLAYED THE WHORE_] Neither the _Vulgate, Septuagint,_ _Targum_, nor _Josephus_, understand this word as implying any act of conjugal infidelity on the woman's part. They merely st...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM - Perhaps only meaning that she ran away from him, and left him, for she returned to her father’s house....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOUR WHOLE MONTHS. Hebrew "days, four months", so some think. "a year and four months"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _played the harlot against him_ The text is open to suspicion. LXX. cod. A reads _was angry with him_; this suits the context, which implies a quarrel, but not unfaithfulness, on the woman's part; she...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND HIS CONCUBINE PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM— The Chaldee renders this, _she despised him,_ &c. the LXX, _she separated herself from him,_ with which Josephus agrees. It is probable, that this is th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HIS CONCUBINE PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM, AND WENT AWAY FROM HIM UNTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE TO BETHLEHEMJUDAH, AND WAS THERE FOUR WHOLE MONTHS._ Went away from him unto her father's house. The ca...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOUR WHOLE MONTHS. — Literally, _days, four months,_ which some interpret to mean “a year (see Note on Judges 17:10) and four months.” The incident has, however, little bearing on the general story....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּזְנֶ֤ה עָלָיו֙ פִּֽילַגְשֹׁ֔ו וַ תֵּ֤לֶךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Left him. Hebrew Thozne. Now tizne, (Du Hamel) "his concubine, fell into fornication against (Junius improperly translates with) him." Chaldean, "She despised went from him." Septuagint, "She was vexe...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months. I think it probable, that though she is called his c...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HIS CONCUBINE PLAYED THE WHORE AGAINST HIM,.... Was unfaithful to him and his bed, and broke the covenant and agreement between them; or "with him" i, while she was with him in the house; or "befo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months. Ver. 2. _And his concubine played the whore against....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And his concubine played the whore against him, beyond him, she became unfaithful to the man whom she had willingly followed, AND WENT AWAY FROM HIM UNTO HER FATHER'S HOUSE TO BETHLEHEM-JUDAH, probabl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOUR WHOLE MONTHS: Or, a year and four months...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 19:2 concubine H6370 harlot H2181 (H8799) away H3212 (H8799) fathers H1 house H1004 Bethlehem H1035 Judah...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 19:2 a ‘And his concubine played the harlot against him.' That is, she was unfaithful to him (compare Deuteronomy Genesis 38:24; Genesis 22:21; Ho

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 19:1 WHEN THERE WAS NO KING (Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 21:25). It appears from

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    [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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:28; Leviticus 21:9...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Against him — That is, 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 connivanc...

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