士師記 19:22-29 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 19:22-30

Here is, I. The great wickedness of the men of Gibeah. One could not imagine that ever it should enter into the heart of men that had the use of human reason, of Israelites that had the benefit of divine revelation, to be so very wicked. ?Lord, what is man!? said David, ?what a mean creature is he!? ?Lord, what is man,? may we say upon the reading of this story, ?what a vile creature is he, when he is given up to his own heart's lusts!? The sinners are here called sons of Belial, that is,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:22

Now as they were making their hearts merry ,.... With a glass of wine after supper, and conversing together in a cheerful manner about their country and friends: behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial ; very wicked, lawless, ungovernable, worthless, and unprofitable creatures, men under the influence of Satan, and their own lusts: beset the house round about : that none might escape out of it, especially the Levite, his wife and servant: and beat at the door ; to get... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:23

And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them ,.... Opened the door, and went out to converse with them, and talked them after this manner: and said unto them, nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly ; it is plain he understood them in such sense, that they meant not bare knowledge of the man, as who he was, &c.; but to commit wickedness the most abominable; so great, that it cannot be well said how great it is; and to dissuade from it, he uses the most... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:24

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 what seemeth good unto you ; those he proposed to bring out, and deliver to them, to lie with, to do with as they pleased to gratify their raging lust, which to do was more than he ought, or had power to do: he had no right to prostitute his own daughter, and much less the concubine or wife of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:25

But the men would not hearken to him ,.... Especially with respect to his daughter, whom they knew very well, and had no affection for, perhaps was not handsome enough for them: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them ; that is, not the old man, but the Levite took his own wife or concubine, and put her forth to them, very probably with her consent, to try if that would pacify them, she being a fair and beautiful woman, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel suggest; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:26

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day ,.... When those wicked wretches who had abused her had left her, having had her from place to place, at some distance from the house out of which she was put, and to which she got again, as well as she could: and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was ; her husband, so called, not because she had been his servant, but because she was his wife; and at the door of the old man's house, where he was, which she knew, and had... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:27

And her lord rose up in the morning ,.... Very early no doubt, and it is scarcely reasonable to think he should sleep quietly after such a riot, and his concubine or wife delivered up to the lust of such brutish creatures: and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way ; either in search of her, or rather to make the best of his way on his journey, to preserve his own life, having given her up for lost: and, behold the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:28

And he said unto her, up, and let us be going ,.... He spoke to her as supposing her asleep, in order to awake her, and prepare for their journey with all the haste they could, lest greater mischief should befall them: but none answered ; for she was dead; and her death was occasioned, as Josephus F23 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 8.) says, partly through grief at what she had suffered, and partly through shame, not daring to come into the sight of her husband; but chiefly... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:29

And when he was come into his house ,.... Having taken the dead body of his wife from off the ass, and brought it in thither, and laid it in a proper place and order: he took a knife ; a carving knife, such as food is cut with, as the word signifies; the Targum is, a sword: and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces ; cut off her limbs at the joints of her bones, and made twelve pieces of them, according to the number of the tribes of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:22

Sons of Belial - Profligate fellows. See the notes on Deuteronomy 13:13 . That we may know him - See Genesis 19:5 . These were genuine sodomites as to their practice; sons of Belial, rascals and miscreants of the deepest dye; worse than brutes, being a compound of beast and devil inseparably blended. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 19:22-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 19:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:22

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