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Verse Judges 19:24. HERE IS _MY DAUGHTER, A MAIDEN_] Such a proposal
was made by _Lot_ to the men of Sodom, Genesis 19:8, but nothing can
excuse either. That the rights of _hospitality_ were sacred i...
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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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The verse is clearly dependent on Genesis 19:8, and, as Bertheau and
Moore think, may be an addition to heighten the resemblance between
the two situations. It does not really fit into the context; _a...
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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 THE MAN, THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, WENT OUT UNTO THEM, AND SAID
UNTO THEM, NAY, MY BRETHREN, NAY, I PRAY YOU, DO NOT SO WICKEDLY;
SEEING THAT THIS MAN IS COME INTO MINE HOUSE, DO NOT THIS FOLLY._...
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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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BEHOLD, HERE IS MY DAUGHTER... — The main horror of these verses
lies, and is meant to lie, in the nameless infamy to which these men
had sunk, of whom we can only say,
“Non ragionam di lor ma guarda...
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הִנֵּה֩ בִתִּ֨י הַ בְּתוּלָ֜ה וּ
פִֽילַגְשֵׁ֗הוּ...
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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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Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will
bring out now, (h) and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth
good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
(h...
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I have, &c. A similar proposal was made by Lot; (Genesis xix. 8,) and
hence the old man, who was brought up to hard labour, and the young
Levite might, through ignorance, suppose it lawful for them to...
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The sad narrative of so detestable an action, and issuing from so
detestable a cause, is enough to put to the blush our depraved nature.
Who that reads it but must exclaim, Lord! what is man! 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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BEHOLD, HERE IS MY DAUGHTER, A MAIDEN, AND HIS CONCUBINE,.... His own
daughter, a virgin, and the concubine of the Levite his guest:
THEM I WILL BRING OUT NOW, AND HUMBLE YE THEM, AND DO WITH THEM WH...
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Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will
bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good
unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Ver. 2...
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_Behold, here is my daughter_, &c. The master of the house came at
last to a resolution that it was less wickedness to prostitute the
women to their lusts than the Levite. The dilemma to which he was...
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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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Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine; them I will
bring out now, and humble ye them, in making them objects of their
lust, AND DO WITH THEM WHAT SEEMETH GOOD UNTO YOU; BUT UNTO THI...
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THE SHAMEFUL ACT OF THE MEN OF GIBEAH...
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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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SO VILE A THING:
_ Heb._ the matter of this folly...
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He offers this to avoid a greater and more unnatural sin, which he
thought they designed; but it seems they did not, their abuse being
confined to the woman, and not extended to the man, who also was...
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“ Look, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine. I will
bring them out now and you may humble them and do with them what seems
good to you. But do not any such folly to this man.”
It may see...
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VILE
the matter of this folly....
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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 19:22 The “hospitality” offered by Gibeah
was like that of Sodom (compare Genesis 19:1). It is likely the author
patterned this text after the...
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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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Deuteronomy 21:14; Genesis 19:8; Genesis 34:2; Romans 3:8...