士師記 19:22-29 JCB

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 in the East, and most highly regarded we know; and that a man would defend, at the expense of his life, the stranger whom he had admitted under his roof, is true; but how a father could make such a proposal relative to his virgin daughter, must remain among those things which are incomprehensible. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:25

So the man took his concubine - The word יחזק yachazek , which we here translate simply took, signifies rather to take or seize by violence. The woman would not go out to them; but her graceless husband forced her to go, in order that he might save his own body. He could have but little love for her, and this was the cause of their separation before. The men of Gibeah who wished to abuse the body of the Levite; the Levite who wished to save his body at the expense of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:26

Fell down at the door - She had strength to reach the door, but not to knock for admittance: when she reached the door she fell down dead! The reason of this abominable and horrid catastrophe is strongly signified by the original words, Judges 19:25 ; : הלילה כל בה ויתעללו אותה וידעו vaiyedu othah , vaiyithallelu bah col hallailah , which we modestly translate, and they knew her, and they abused her all the night. More literally, but still not fully: Illi cum ea rem... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:29

Divided her - into twelve pieces - There is no doubt that with the pieces he sent to each tribe a circumstantial account of the barbarity of the men of Gibeah; and it is very likely that they considered each of the pieces as expressing an execration, "If ye will not come and avenge my wrongs, may ye be hewn in pieces like this abused and murdered woman!" It was a custom among the ancient Highlanders in Scotland, when one clan wished to call all the rest to avenge its wrongs, to take a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 19:23

This man is come into mine house - He appeals to the sacred rights of hospitality, just as Lot did Genesis 19:8. Both cases betray painfully the low place in the social scale occupied by woman in the old world, from which it is one of the glories of Christianity to have raised her. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 19:29

A knife - Rather, “the” “knife”. The single household implement used, not like our knives at our meals, but for slaughtering and cutting up the animals into joints for eating Genesis 22:6, Genesis 22:10; Proverbs 30:14.Together with her bones ... - Rather, “into her bones”, or “bone by bone, into twelve pieces”. The “pieces” are synonymous with the “bones” (compare Ezekiel 24:4-5). There is something truly terrible in the stern ferocity of grief and indignation which dictated this desperate... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:22-23

Judges 19:22-23. As they were making their hearts merry That is, refreshing themselves with the provisions set before them. Behold, certain sons of Belial Children of the devil, wicked and licentious men. Bring forth the man, &c. They wanted the Levite brought forth, that they might satisfy their unnatural lusts. This man is come into my house And therefore I am obliged to protect him by the laws of hospitality. As several circumstances of this horrid wickedness resemble those of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:24

Judges 19:24. 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 reduced was indeed dreadful, nevertheless he is not to be justified in the proposal which he makes, no more than Lot was to be justified in a similar case, in offering his two daughters to satisfy the lusts of the men of Sodom. Although of two evils we must choose the less, yet,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:26

Judges 19:26. Then came the woman, and fell down, &c. Namely, dead; killed partly with grief of heart, and partly with excessive abuse. Thus the sin she formerly chose, (Judges 19:2,) is now her destruction; and though her husband pardoned her, God would punish her, at least as to this life. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:27-28

Judges 19:27-28. Went out to go his way Concluding, without doubt, that the Gibeathites had conveyed away his concubine, and would keep her, and therefore he hasted home to take proper measures for the recovery of her; as we find he did afterward to revenge her death. He said unto her, Up, and let us be going He thought she was only asleep, and the unexpected surprise of seeing her, and his haste to get out of this inhospitable place, might make him express himself in this manner. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 19:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 19:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 19:29

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:22-23

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:26

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 19:27-28

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