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Judges 19:22-26

JUDGES—NOTE ON Judges 19:22 The “hospitality” offered by Gibeah was like that of Sodom (compare Genesis 19:1). It is likely the author patterned this text after the Genesis 1:1 account, as if to say, “Things are as bad now as in the days of Sodom!”

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See also Judges 19:22-26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 19:22. _SONS OF BELIAL_] Profligate fellows. Deuteronomy 13:13. _THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM._] See Genesis 19:5. These were genuine sodomites as to their practice; sons of Belial, rasc

  • 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

    SONS OF BELIAL. worthless scoundrels, sons of the devil. DOOR. Like Sodom (Genesis 19:4),. sign of the moral corruption which follows apostasy and accompanies idolatry....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _sons of Belial_ Marg. _sons of worthlessness_, as in Judges 20:13; Deuteronomy 13:13; 1 Samuel 25:17; 1 Samuel 25:25 etc., takin

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, &C.— As many circumstances of this horrid affair are very similar to those in Genesis 19., we refer to the comment on that place....

  • 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

    _NOW AS THEY WERE MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY, BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL, BESET THE HOUSE ROUND ABOUT, AND BEAT AT THE DOOR, AND SPAKE TO THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, THE OLD MAN,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SONS OF BELIAL] The Hebrew means simply 'worthless men' or 'rascals.' Belial is not a proper name: cp. 1 Samuel 1:16). 23. The old man dreads being compelled to violate the laws of Eastern hospitalit...

  • 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

    SONS OF BELIAL. — It is only by a deeply-rooted misconception that Belial is written with a capital. The word is not the name (as is supposed) of an evil spirit, but an ordinary noun, “sons of worthle...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵמָּה֮ מֵיטִיבִ֣ים אֶת ־לִבָּם֒ וְ הִנֵּה֩ א

  • 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

    They stayed in the marketplace of Gibeah because no one invited them in for the night. At last, an old man, also from Ephraim, invited them in to receive food, a night's lodging and provisions for the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] (g) beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the ol...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    That is, &c. An interpretation of the Vulgate. Belial is sometimes rendered "devilish, apostate," &c. Septuagint, "lawless, or transgressors." (Menochius) --- Aquila, "rebels." Symmachus, "libertines,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I would be led to hope, that the mirth here spoken of was sacred mirth. There is no real joy but the joy of the Holy Ghost; and this is the kingdom of God. Romans 14:17....

  • 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

    NOW AS THEY WERE MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY,.... With a glass of wine after supper, and conversing together in a cheerful manner about their country and friends: BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN S...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Judges 19:22 [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the hous...

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

    _As they were making their hearts merry_ That is, refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. _Behold, certain sons of Belial_ Children of the devil, wicked and licentious men. _Bring f...

  • 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

    THE SHAMEFUL ACT OF THE MEN OF GIBEAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, as they were making their hearts merry, as they became better acquainted during the evening meal, BEHOLD, THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL, worthless, profitless, vicious fools, among...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY, i.e. refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL; wicked and licentious men: see DEUTERONOMY 13:13. THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM; an ambiguous...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 19:22 enjoying H3820 H3190 (H8688) certain H582 men H582 city H5892 perverted H1121 H1100 surrounded...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 19:22 a ‘And as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, beating at the door --.' “MAKING -- MERRY.” With food an...

  • 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 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

    1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Samuel 1:16; 1 Samuel 10:27; 1 Samuel 2:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Merry — That is, refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. Sons of belial — Children of the devil, wicked and licentious men....

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