士师记 20:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

基比亞人民起來攻擊我，在夜間包圍我住的房子攻擊我，有意殺害我；他們把我的妾污辱致死。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
基 比 亚 人 夜 间 起 来 ， 围 了 我 住 的 房 子 ， 想 要 杀 我 ， 又 将 我 的 妾 强 奸 致 死 。

Contextual Overview

¹ So all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, joined together before the Lord in the city of Mizpah. ² The leaders of all the tribes of Israel took their places in the meeting of the people of God. There were 400,000 soldiers with swords. ³ (The people of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said to the Levite, "Tell us how this evil thing happened." ⁴ So the husband of the murdered woman answered, "My slave woman and I came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night. ⁵ During the night the men of Gibeah came after me. They surrounded the house and wanted to kill me. They forced my slave woman to have sexual relations and she died. ⁶ I took her and cut her into parts and sent one part to each area of Israel because the people of Benjamin did this wicked and terrible thing in Israel. ⁷ Now, all you Israelites, speak up. What is your decision?" ⁸ Then all the people stood up at the same time, saying, "None of us will go home. Not one of us will go back to his house! ⁹ Now this is what we will do to Gibeah. We will throw lots. ¹⁰ That way we will choose ten men from every hundred men from all the tribes of Israel, and we will choose a hundred men from every thousand, and a thousand men from every ten thousand. These will find supplies for the army. Then the army will go to the city of Gibeah of Benjamin to repay them for the terrible thing they have done in Israel."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And the men: Judges 19:22

beset: Genesis 19:4-8

and my concubine: Judges 19:25, Judges 19:26

forced: Heb. humbled, Deuteronomy 22:24, Ezekiel 22:10, Ezekiel 22:11

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:28 - Gibeath Judges 19:28 - But none 2 Samuel 13:14 - forced her Hosea 10:9 - from

Cross-References

Joshua 22:22
"The Lord is God of gods! The Lord is God of gods! God knows, and we want you to know also. If we have done something wrong, you may kill us.

1 Kings 9:4
"But you must serve me as your father David did; he was fair and sincere. You must obey all I have commanded and keep my laws and rules.

2 Kings 20:3
" Lord , please remember that I have always obeyed you. I have given myself completely to you and have done what you said was right." Then Hezekiah cried loudly.

1 Chronicles 29:17
I know, my God, that you test people's hearts. You are happy when people do what is right. I was happy to give all these things, and I gave with an honest heart. Your people gathered here are happy to give to you, and I rejoice to see their giving.

Job 33:9
You said, ‘I am pure and without sin; I am innocent and free from guilt.

Psalms 7:8
Lord , judge the people. Lord , defend me because I am right, because I have done no wrong, God Most High.

Psalms 24:4
Only those with clean hands and pure hearts, who have not worshiped idols, who have not made promises in the name of a false god.

Psalms 25:21
My hope is in you, so may goodness and honesty guard me.

Psalms 26:6
I wash my hands to show I am innocent, and I come to your altar, Lord .

Psalms 73:13
So why have I kept my heart pure? Why have I kept my hands from doing wrong?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of Gibeah rose against me,.... Not all of them, but some that dwelt in that city; he forbears giving them the character they justly deserved, sons of Belial. These came in a tumultuous and violent manner,

and beset the house round about upon me by night; that he might not make his escape, resolving if possible to get him into their hands, and do with him according to their will:

and thought to have slain me; their first intention was to commit the unnatural sin on him, and, if he resisted, to slay him; but this he modestly conceals, as being a sin not to be named in an assembly of saints; and besides he might say this, because he himself chose rather to be slain than to submit to their lust, which he knew must be the case upon his refusal and resistance; and even if he had yielded, being overpowered, this would have been the consequence, that he should have been abused even unto death, as his wife was:

and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead; or "afflicted", or "humbled" d her; which is a modest expression for carnal knowledge of her, and which they had to such excess that she died through it.

d ענו "afflixerunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus.