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Young's Literal Translation

Judges 19:7

And the man riseth to go, and his father-in-law presseth on him, and he turneth back and lodgeth there.

Bible Study Resources

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;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Concubine;   Gibeah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Wayfaring Men;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day and Night;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The man got up to go, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed and spent the night there again.
Hebrew Names Version
The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
King James Version
And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
Lexham English Bible
The man got up to go, but his father-in-law urged him, and he returned and spent the night there.
English Standard Version
And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again.
New Century Version
When the man got up to go, his father-in-law asked him to stay. So he stayed again that night.
New English Translation
When the man got ready to leave, his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night.
Amplified Bible
Then the man got up to leave, but his father-in-law urged him [strongly to remain]; so he spent the night there again.
New American Standard Bible
However, the man got up to go; but his father-in-law urged him, and he spent the night there again.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the man rose vp to depart, his father in lawe was earnest: therefore he returned, and lodged there.
Legacy Standard Bible
Toe die man egter klaarmaak om weg te gaan, het sy skoonvader by hom aangedring, sodat hy weer die nag daar oorgebly het.
Contemporary English Version
The Levite tried to leave, but his father-in-law insisted, and he spent one more night.
Complete Jewish Bible
The man rose to leave, but his father-in-law pressed him, so he stayed there again.
Darby Translation
And the man rose up to depart, but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Levite got up to leave, but his father-in-law persuaded him to stay the night again.
George Lamsa Translation
And when the man rose up to depart, his father-in-law urged him to stay; and he spent the night there again.
Good News Translation
The Levite got up to go, but the father urged him to stay, so he spent another night there.
Literal Translation
And the man rose up to go; and his father-in-law pressed him, and he turned back and stayed there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye ma arose, & wolde nedes go. And his father in lawe constrayned him to tarye all nighte.
American Standard Version
And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
Bible in Basic English
And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the man stoode redy to depart, his father in lawe compelled hym: therfore he returned, and taryed all nyght there.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
King James Version (1611)
And when the man rose vp to depart, his father in law vrged him: therfore he lodged there againe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law constrained him, and he stayed and lodged there.
English Revised Version
And the man rose up to depart; but his father in law urged him, and he lodged there again.
Berean Standard Bible
The man got up to go, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he roos, and bigan to wilne to go; and neuertheles `the fadir of his wijf helde hym mekeli, and made to dwelle at hym.
Update Bible Version
And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when the man rose to depart, his father-in-law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
World English Bible
The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.
New King James Version
And when the man stood to depart, his father-in-law urged him; so he lodged there again.
New Living Translation
The man got up to leave, but his father-in-law kept urging him to stay, so he finally gave in and stayed the night.
New Life Bible
The man stood up to go. But his father-in-law begged him so that he stayed another night there.
New Revised Standard
When the man got up to go, his father-in-law kept urging him until he spent the night there again.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, so he turned back and tarried the night there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But he rising up, began to be for departing. And nevertheless his father in law earnestly pressed him, and made him stay with him.
Revised Standard Version
And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law urged him, till he lodged there again.
THE MESSAGE
The Levite It was an era when there was no king in Israel. A Levite, living as a stranger in the backwoods hill country of Ephraim, got himself a concubine, a woman from Bethlehem in Judah. But she quarreled with him and left, returning to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there four months. Then her husband decided to go after her and try to win her back. He had a servant and a pair of donkeys with him. When he arrived at her father's house, the girl's father saw him, welcomed him, and made him feel at home. His father-in-law, the girl's father, pressed him to stay. He stayed with him three days; they feasted and drank and slept. On the fourth day, they got up at the crack of dawn and got ready to go. But the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen yourself with a hearty breakfast and then you can go." So they sat down and ate breakfast together. The girl's father said to the man, "Come now, be my guest. Stay the night—make it a holiday." The man got up to go, but his father-in-law kept after him, so he ended up spending another night.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the man arose to go, but his father-in-law urged him so that he spent the night there again.

Contextual Overview

1 And it cometh to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he taketh to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah; 2 and commit whoredom against him doth his concubine, and she goeth from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days -- four months. 3 And her husband riseth and goeth after her, to speak unto her heart, to bring her back, and his young man [is] with him, and a couple of asses; and she bringeth him into the house of her father, and the father of the young woman seeth him, and rejoiceth to meet him. 4 And keep hold on him doth his father-in-law, father of the young woman, and he abideth with him three days, and they eat and drink, and lodge there. 5 And it cometh to pass, on the fourth day, that they rise early in the morning, and he riseth to go, and the father of the young woman saith unto his son-in-law, `Support thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye go on.' 6 And they sit and eat both of them together, and drink, and the father of the young woman saith unto the man, `Be willing, I pray thee, and lodge all night, and let thy heart be glad.' 7 And the man riseth to go, and his father-in-law presseth on him, and he turneth back and lodgeth there. 8 And he riseth early in the morning, on the fifth day, to go, and the father of the young woman saith, `Support, I pray thee, thy heart;' and they have tarried till the turning of the day, and they eat, both of them. 9 And the man riseth to go, he and his concubine, and his young man, and his father-in-law, father of the young woman, saith to him, `Lo, I pray thee, the day hath fallen toward evening, lodge all night, I pray thee; lo, the declining of the day! lodge here, and let thine heart be glad -- and ye have risen early to-morrow for your journey, and thou hast gone to thy tent.' 10 And the man hath not been willing to lodge all night, and he riseth, and goeth, and cometh in till over-against Jebus (It [is] Jerusalem), and with him [are] a couple of asses saddled; and his concubine [is] with him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Judges 19:22 - they were 2 Samuel 13:25 - pressed

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;
Genesis 19:9
And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than [to] them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.
Genesis 19:11
and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.
Genesis 19:23
The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar,
Genesis 19:24
and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;
Leviticus 18:22
`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it [is].
Leviticus 20:13
`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood [is] on them.
Deuteronomy 23:17
`There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
Judges 19:23
And the man, the master of the house, goeth out unto them, and saith unto them, `Nay, my brethren, do not evil, I pray you, after that this man hath come in unto my house, do not this folly;
Acts 17:26
He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the man rose up to depart,.... Rose up from table, having ate and drank sufficiently, in order to depart the house, and proceed on his journey:

his father in law urged him; with much entreaty, and earnest solicitations, that he would stay all night with him:

therefore he lodged there again; another night, being prevailed upon through his father's importunity.


 
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