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Verse Judges 19:3. _HE REJOICED TO MEET HIM._] He hoped to be able
completely to reconcile his daughter and her husband....
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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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FRIENDLY. Hebrew "to her heart". affectionately....
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_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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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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HE REJOICED] feeling the separation to be a disgrace....
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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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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...
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וַ יָּ֨קָם אִישָׁ֜הּ וַ יֵּ֣לֶךְ
אַחֲרֶ֗יהָ ל
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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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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 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...
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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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FRIENDLY UNTO HER:
_ Heb._ to her heart...
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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...
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Judges 19:3 husband H376 arose H6965 (H8799) went H3212 (H8799) after
H310 speak H1696 (H8763) kindly...
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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 19:3 An elaborate ritual of hospitality takes
place, in sharp contrast to what follows.
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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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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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Galatians 6:1; Genesis 34:3; Genesis 50:21; Hosea 2:14; Jeremiah 3:1;...