Judges 19 - Introduction
This history has no connection whatever with the preceding. The note of time Judges 20:28 shows that the date of it is in the lifetime of the first generation of settlers in Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
This history has no connection whatever with the preceding. The note of time Judges 20:28 shows that the date of it is in the lifetime of the first generation of settlers in Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
A CONCUBINE - See the margin. The name does not imply any moral reproach. A concubine was as much the man’s wife as the woman so called, though she had not the same rights. See Judges 19:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a perfect picture of the manners of the time. It is probable that the father showed more than usual hospitality, in order to ensure the kind treatment of his daughter by her husband. These particulars are given to account for their journey running so far into the evening, which was the immed... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIBEAH, WHICH BELONGETH TO BENJAMIN - See Joshua 18:24 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
A STREET - Probably the square or place within the gates, where courts were held, bargains made, and where the chief men and strangers congregated.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD - Probably at Shiloh (marginal references). The Levite was probably one of those who ministered at the tabernacle. His two donkeys and servant show him to have been in good circumstances, and he had a home of his own.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS MAN IS COME INTO MINE HOUSE - He appeals to the sacred rights of hospitality, just as Lot did Genesis 19:8. Both cases betray painfully the low place in the social scale occupied by woman in the old world, from which it is one of the glories of Christianity to have raised her.... [ Continue Reading ]
A KNIFE - Rather, “the” “knife”. The single household implement used, not like our knives at our meals, but for slaughtering and cutting up the animals into joints for eating Genesis 22:6, Genesis 22:10; Proverbs 30:14. TOGETHER WITH HER BONES ... - Rather, “into her bones”, or “bone by bone, into t... [ Continue Reading ]