Judges 19

Judges 19:1

in those days. In the same days as Ch. Judges 18:1. Soon after the death of Joshua. Figure of speech Hysterologia. App-6.

no king. See note on Judges 18:1.

a certain Levite. The house of God neglected. Priests and Levites unemployed and wandering about. Compare Judges 17:7.

mount = the hill country of.

Judges 19:2

four whole months. Hebrew “days, four months”, so some think = “a year and four months”.

Judges 19:3

friendly. Hebrew “to her heart” = affectionately.

Judges 19:10

Jebus. At that time still occupied by Canaanites. See Joshua 10:1; Joshua 15:63.

Judges 19:12

children = sons.

Gibeah. City of Benjamin; later, the residence of Saul (1 Samuel 10:26; 1 Samuel 11:4).

Judges 19:15

street = open place.

Judges 19:18

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.

Judges 19:19

servants. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, and Syriac, read “servant” (Singular).

Judges 19:22

sons of Belial = worthless scoundrels, sons of the devil.

door. Like Sodom (Genesis 19:4), a sign of the moral corruption which follows apostasy and accompanies idolatry.

Judges 19:23

the man. Another Lot in another Sodom.

wickedly. Hebrew. ra’a. App-44.

Judges 19:26

door = entrance.

Judges 19:28

an = the.