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CITY OF A STRANGER - This shows how completely, even in these early
days, the Jebusite population had excluded both the tribes of Judah
and Benjamin....
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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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CHILDREN. sons.
GIBEAH. City of Benjamin; later, the residence of Saul (1 Samuel
10:26; 1 Samuel 11:4)....
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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 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...
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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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TO GIBEAH. — This is the “Gibeah of Saul,” where the first king
of Israel was born (1 Samuel 11:4). It was one of the fourteen cities
of Benjamin (Joshua 18:28), and is the modern _Tuleil el Ful._ It...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֲדֹנָ֔יו לֹ֤א
נָסוּר֙ אֶ
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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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And his master said unto him, (d) We will not turn aside hither into
the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we
will pass over to Gibeah.
(d) Though in these days there were...
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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...
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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 HIS MASTER SAID UNTO HIM, WE WILL NOT TURN ASIDE HITHER INTO THE
CITY OF A STRANGER,.... A city of the children of the Gentiles, as the
Targum, as the Jebusites were, being one of the seven nation...
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And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the
city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will
pass over to Gibeah.
Ver. 12. _We will pass over to Gibeah._]...
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_The city of a stranger_ That is, of a strange nation; a city which
the Canaanites possess. For though Jerusalem had been taken by Caleb,
(chap. 1.,) yet the strong fort of Zion was still in their han...
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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 his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the
city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel, for the
Benjamites had not yet taken the city, Judges 1:21, and he feare...
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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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OF A STRANGER, i.e. of a strange nation, which the Canaanites possess;
for though the city Jerusalem had been taken by Caleb, JUD 1, yet the
strong fort of Zion was still in their hands, 2 SAMUEL 5:6,...
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Judges 19:12 master H113 said H559 (H8799) aside H5493 (H8799) city
H5892 foreigners H5237 children H1121 Isra
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‘ And his master said to him, we will not turn aside into the city
of a stranger, who are not of the children of Israel, but we will pass
over to Gibeah.'
The Levite was a patriotic and religious man...
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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 19:10 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)....
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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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Judges 19:12...
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A stranger — That is, of a strange nation: which the Canaanites
possess; for though the city Jerusalem had been taken by Caleb, Judges
1:8, yet the strong fort of Zion was still in their hands, whence...