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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 circu...
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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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GOING. His direction was towards mount Ephraim, not to Shiloh!
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. So Micah's temple was already called. Compare
Judges 18:31.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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_the farther side_ See on Judges 19:1.
_the house of the Lord_ The marg. is to be preferred; the last letter
of _bêthî = my house_was taken as the initial of the divine name
_Yahweh_. A converse mist...
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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 HE HAD LIFTED UP HIS EYES, HE SAW A WAYFARING MAN IN THE
STREET OF THE CITY: AND THE OLD MAN SAID, WHITHER GOEST THOU? AND
WHENCE COMEST THOU?_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו עֹבְרִ֨ים
אֲנַ֜חְנוּ מִ בֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶם
יְהוּדָה֮ עַד ־יַרְכְּתֵ֣י הַר
־אֶפְרַיִם֒ מִ שָּׁ֣ם
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Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE
Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1
THESE last Chapter s describe a general and vehement outburst of moral
indignation throughout Israel, reco...
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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...
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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 he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the
side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to
Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the (f) house of the LORD; and
th...
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_Of God. Septuagint, "to my house I return in haste; and no one brings
me into his house." The tabernacle was fixed at Silo in Ephraim.
(Haydock) --- Chaldean, "the house of the sanctuary of God."
(Me...
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While we pay the tribute of just praise, to the old man, and admire
his generosity, let the Reader have the eye of his mind directed to
him, of whom we read in the gospel, the good Samaritan, and in h...
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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 HE SAID UNTO HIM, WE ARE PASSING FROM BETHLEHEMJUDAH,.... He
answers to his last question first, for this was the place from whence
they came:
TOWARDS THE SIDE OF MOUNT EPHRAIM: thither they were...
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And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the
side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to
Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and
there...
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_House of the Lord_ Which was in Shiloh. Thither he went, either
because he lived there for that was in the tribe of Ephraim; or,
rather, because he would there offer prayers and praises, and
sacrific...
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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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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 w...
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RECEIVETH:
_ Heb._ gathereth...
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THE HOUSE OF THE LORD was in Shiloh, JOSHUA 18:1, JOSHUA 22:12 Thither
he went, either because he lived there, for that in the tribe of
Ephraim; or rather, because he would there offer prayers, and pr...
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Judges 19:18 said H559 (H8799) passing H5674 (H8802) Bethlehem H1035
Judah H3063 remote H3411 mountains H2022 Ephraim H669 went H3212
(H8799) Bethlehem H1035 Judah H3063 going H1980 (H8802) house H100...
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‘ And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem-judah to the
far side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there. And I went
to Bethleham-judah, and I am now going to the house of Yahweh. An...
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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 v...
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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.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = documen...
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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
h...
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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 Judges 20:27, Judges 20:28 that the events narrated in
these three last chapters of the Book of...
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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. G...
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1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 1:7; John 15:6; Joshua 18:1; Judges 18:31;
Judges 19:5; Judges 20:18; Psalms 26:9...
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House of the Lord — Which was in Shiloh. Thither he went, either
because he lived there, for that was in the tribe of Ephraim; or,
rather, because he would there offer prayers and praises, and
sacrifi...