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士师记 19:3

她的丈夫起來,帶著一個僕人和兩頭驢去追她,用話打動她的心,叫她回來。她把丈夫帶到自己父家,那少女的父親見了那人,就歡歡喜喜迎接他。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Concubinage;   Father-In-Law;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Garments;   Hospitality;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Micah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gibeah;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   Bethlehem;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Slave, Slavery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Concubine;   Gibeah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Wayfaring Men;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ass;   Pentateuch, the Samaritan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hospitality;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 丈 夫 起 来 , 带 着 一 个 仆 人 、 两 匹 驴 去 见 他 , 用 好 话 劝 他 回 来 。 女 子 就 引 丈 夫 进 入 父 家 。 他 父 见 了 那 人 , 便 欢 欢 喜 喜 地 迎 接 。

Contextual Overview

1 At that time Israel did not have a king. There was a Levite who lived in the faraway mountains of Ephraim. He had taken a slave woman from the city of Bethlehem in the land of Judah to live with him, 2 but she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah and stayed there for four months. 3 Then her husband went to ask her to come back to him, taking with him his servant and two donkeys. When the Levite came to her father's house, she invited him to come in, and her father was happy to see him. 4 The father-in-law, the young woman's father, asked him to stay. So he stayed for three days and ate, drank, and slept there. 5 On the fourth day they got up early in the morning. The Levite was getting ready to leave, but the woman's father said to his son-in-law, "Refresh yourself by eating something. Then go." 6 So the two men sat down to eat and drink together. After that, the father said to him, "Please stay tonight. Relax and enjoy yourself." 7 When the man got up to go, his father-in-law asked him to stay. So he stayed again that night. 8 On the fifth day the man got up early in the morning to leave. The woman's father said, "Refresh yourself. Wait until this afternoon." So the two men ate together. 9 When the Levite, his slave woman, and his servant got up to leave, the father-in-law, the young woman's father, said, "It's almost night. The day is almost gone. Spend the night here and enjoy yourself. Tomorrow morning you can get up early and go home." 10 But the Levite did not want to stay another night. So he took his two saddled donkeys and his slave woman and traveled toward the city of Jebus (also called Jerusalem).

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went: Judges 15:1

speak: Genesis 50:21, Leviticus 19:17, Leviticus 20:10, Hosea 2:14, Matthew 1:19, John 8:4, John 8:5, John 8:11, Galatians 6:1

friendly unto her: Heb. to her heart, Genesis 34:3

to bring: Jeremiah 3:1

his servant: Numbers 22:22

Reciprocal: Judges 19:26 - her lord was Ruth 2:13 - friendly 1 Corinthians 7:11 - or

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to them, closing the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look! I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. I will give them to you, and you may do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Jordan Valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had asked. So God saved Lot's life, but he destroyed the city where Lot had lived.
Genesis 21:8
Isaac grew, and when he became old enough to eat food, Abraham gave a great feast.
Exodus 12:15
For this feast you must eat bread made without yeast for seven days. On the first day, you are to remove all the yeast from your houses. No one should eat any yeast for the full seven days of the feast, or that person will be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:39
The Israelites used the dough they had brought out of Egypt to bake loaves of bread without yeast. The dough had no yeast in it, because they had been rushed out of Egypt and had no time to get food ready for their trip.
Judges 6:19
So Gideon went in and cooked a young goat, and with twenty quarts of flour, made bread without yeast. Then he put the meat into a basket and the broth into a pot. He brought them out and gave them to the angel under the oak tree.
1 Samuel 28:24
At the house the woman had a fat calf, which she quickly killed. She took some flour and mixed dough with her hands. Then she baked some bread without yeast.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where an important woman lived. She begged Elisha to stay and eat. So every time Elisha passed by, he stopped there to eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And her husband arose,.... From the place where he lived:

and went after her; to Bethlehemjudah, where her father lived:

to speak comfortably to her "or to her heart" l; having heard perhaps that she repented of her sin, or if it was only upon a quarrel between them, his anger might cool and subside, and therefore sought for a reconciliation; and which was the more commendable in him, as he did not put her away, but she departed from him: and

to bring her again; to his own city, and to his own house and bed, as before:

having his servant with him, and a couple of asses; one of them for her to ride upon, and the other to carry provisions on:

and she brought him into her father's house; it seems she met with him before he came thither, in the fields, or in the street; and by this it appears that she was glad to see him, and received him in a loving manner, and introduced him into her father's house, so that things looked well, and promised success:

and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him; having a good opinion of him, and perhaps understood, even by his daughter's story, that she was most in fault, and therefore was well pleased to see him come after her; though he ought before this time to have sent her home, or sought for a reconciliation of her to her husband.

l על לבה "ad cor", Pagninus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 19:3. He rejoiced to meet him. — He hoped to be able completely to reconcile his daughter and her husband.


 
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