Judges 19:1
WHEN _there was_ NO KING] see on Judges 17:6. A CERTAIN LEVITE] see on Judges 17:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN _there was_ NO KING] see on Judges 17:6. A CERTAIN LEVITE] see on Judges 17:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the cause of the war between the rest of the tribes and Benjamin, with which the remainder of Judges i... [ Continue Reading ]
HE REJOICED] feeling the separation to be a disgrace.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEBUS] see Judges 1:21 : also Joshua 15:8; 1 Chronicles 11:4. The journey from Bethlehem would not take more than two hours. 12. See on Judges 1:7; Judges 1:8. Did they remember the story of Sodom (Genesis 19)?... [ Continue Reading ]
GIBEAH.. RAMAH] both N. of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is hardly any twilight in Palestine. 15. Gibeah thus proves as inhospitable as they feared Jerusalem would be.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIELD] i.e. the open country surrounding the village.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD] LXX reads 'my house,' which is preferable. 19. Note the politeness of the phrases 'thy handmaid' and 'thy servants.' The traveller needs nothing except actual house-room. An inn is only the modern substitute for the hospitality on which originally travellers were compelled to... [ Continue Reading ]
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 hospitality.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. 1 Samuel 11:7.... [ Continue Reading ]