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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 par...
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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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_Behold, now the day draweth toward evening … behold, the day
groweth to an end_ lit. _the day sinks to become evening … the
camping-time_(_?) of the day_. The doubling of phrases points to a
conflati...
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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 WHEN THE MAN ROSE UP TO DEPART, HE, AND HIS CONCUBINE, AND HIS
SERVANT, HIS FATHER IN LAW, THE DAMSEL'S FATHER, SAID UNTO HIM,
BEHOLD, NOW THE DAY DRAWETH TOWARD EVENING, I PRAY YOU TARRY ALL
NIG...
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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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THE DAY DRAWETH TOWARD EVENING. — Literally, _is weak,_ or _has
slackened to evening._ The father had purposely detained the Levite
till late, in the hopes of inducing him to spend one more night unde...
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וַ יָּ֤קָם הָ אִישׁ֙ לָ לֶ֔כֶת ה֥וּא
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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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A Levite living in the remote part of the mountains of Ephraim took a
woman from Bethlehem to be his concubine, which is like a wife only
without the same rights. She was unfaithful to him and returne...
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And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his
servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him,
Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all
nigh...
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_Depart. Hebrew and Septuagint add, "early," before the sun was up to
render travelling incommodious. (Haydock)_...
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There is somewhat very interesting in family happiness. The Lord hath
entwined the heart of man to man. And in the nearer connections of
life, the knot is drawn yet closer. But as to all these creatur...
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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 WHEN THE MAN ROSE UP TO DEPART, HE AND HIS CONCUBINE, AND HIS
SERVANT,.... Rose up from table, having comfortably refreshed
themselves:
HIS FATHER IN LAW, THE DAMSEL'S FATHER, SAID UNTO HIM, BEHO...
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And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his
servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him,
Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all
nigh...
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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 when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine and his
servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him,
Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, literally, the day sinks
do...
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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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DRAWETH:
_ Heb._ is weak
THE DAY GROWETH TO AN END:
_ Heb._ it is the pitching time of the day
HOME:
_ Heb._ to thy tent...
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THE DAY GROWETH TO AN END, Heb. _it is the encamping time of the day_,
i.e. the evening, when armies having marched in the day, begin to
pitch their camp; or, when the sun that makes the day begins to...
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Judges 19:9 man H376 stood H6965 (H8799) depart H3212 concubine H6370
father-in-law H2859 (H8802) womans H5291 father...
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Judges 19:9 a
‘And when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine, and his
servant.'
Interestingly this is the first indication that we know that the
concubine had agreed to go back with him,...
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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 19:3 An elaborate ritual of hospitality takes
place, in sharp contrast to what follows.
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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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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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James 4:13; James 4:14; Jeremiah 6:4; Luke 24:29; Proverbs 27:1...