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WHICH WAS ALSO OF MOUNT EPHRAIM - i. e., of the country of the Levite.
This single giver of hospitality was himself a stranger and sojourner
at Gibeah....
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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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_and he sojourned_ Cf. Judges 17:7 _n._The only person that paid any
attention to the travellers was not a native of the place: it was the
same at Sodom, Genesis 19:1 f. The last words of the verse ar...
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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, BEHOLD, THERE CAME AN OLD MAN FROM HIS WORK OUT OF THE FIELD AT
EVEN, WHICH WAS ALSO OF MOUNT EPHRAIM; AND HE SOJOURNED IN GIBEAH: BUT
THE MEN OF THE PLACE WERE BENJAMITES._
There came an old m...
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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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THE FIELD] i.e. the open country surrounding the village....
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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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WHICH WAS ALSO OF MOUNT EPHRAIM. — He was therefore a
fellow-countryman of the Levite, but his hospitable feelings were
aroused before he had been informed of this fact.
TOWARD THE SIDE OF MOUNT EPHR...
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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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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...
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And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at
even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah:
but the men of the place [were] (e) Benjamites.
(e) Or, the c...
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_Jemini. That is, Benjamin. (Challoner) --- Chap. iii. 15._...
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And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at
even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but
the men of the place were Benjamites.
The sacred historian,...
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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, BEHOLD, THERE CAME AN OLD MAN FROM HIS WORK OUT OF THE FIELD AT
EVEN,.... Which is the time that men come from their labour, and take
their rest; and this man, though a man in years, and of some...
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And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at
even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah:
but the men of the place [were] Benjamites.
Ver. 16. _There c...
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_Also of mount Ephraim_ Whence likewise the Levite was, which inclined
him to show the more kindness to his countryman. _But the men of the
place were Benjamites_ This was indeed one of the cities bel...
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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, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at
even, which was also of Mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah, he
was not a citizen of the town; BUT THE MEN OF THE PLACE WERE...
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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 MOUNT EPHRAIM; whence also the Levite was, which obliged and
inclined him to show the more kindness to his countryman. THE MEN OF
THE PLACE WERE BENJAMITES: this was indeed one of thee cities
belon...
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Judges 19:16 old H2205 man H376 came H935 (H8804) work H4639 field
H7704 evening H6153 also H376 mountains...
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Judges 19:16 a
‘And behold, there came an old man from his work, from the country
in the evening. Now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he
sojourned in Gibeah.'
As it happened an old ma...
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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 19:16 OLD MAN... SOJOURNING IN GIBEAH. The
Levite had thought it would be safer to stay in Gibeah than in
Jerusalem (see note on vv. 10–12). Yet in Gibeah he found
hospitality fr...
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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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1 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:10;
Ecclesiastes 1:13;...
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Ephraim — Whence also the Levite was, which enclined him to shew the
more kindness to his country — man. Benjamites — This was indeed
one of the cities belonging to the priests; but the cities which w...