Richter 19:24

Elberfelder Bibel

Siehe, meine Tochter, die Jungfrau, und sein Kebsweib, lasset mich doch sie herausführen; und schwächet sie und tut mit ihnen, was gut ist in euren Augen; aber an diesem Manne begehet nicht diese Schandtat!

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Siehe, ich habe eine Tochter, die noch eine Jungfrau ist, und dieser hat ein Kebsweib; dieselben will ich euch herausbringen; die mögt ihr schwächen und mit ihnen tun, was euch gefällt; aber an diesem Manne begeht keine solche Schandtat!

Lutherbible (1912)
Siehe, ich habe eine Tochter, noch eine Jungfrau, und dieser ein Kebsweib; die will ich herausbringen. Die mögt ihr zu Schanden machen, und tut mit ihr, was euch gefällt; aber an diesen Mann tut nicht solche Torheit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Behold: The rites of hospitality are regarded as sacred and inviolable in the East, and a man who has admitted a stranger under his roof, is bound to protect him even at the expense of his life. On these high notions only, the influence of which an Asiatic mind alone can appreciate, can the present transaction be either excused or palliated.

them: Genesis 19:8, Romans 3:8

humble ye: Genesis 34:2, *marg. Deuteronomy 21:14

so vile a thing: Heb. the matter of this folly

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:13 - Now therefore

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, here is my daughter, a maiden, and his concubine,.... His own daughter, a virgin, and the concubine of the Levite his guest:

them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you; those he proposed to bring out, and deliver to them, to lie with, to do with as they pleased to gratify their raging lust, which to do was more than he ought, or had power to do: he had no right to prostitute his own daughter, and much less the concubine or wife of another man, though perhaps it might be with the consent of the Levite; but all this he said in a hurry and surprise, in a fright and terror, and of two evils choosing the least, and perhaps in imitation of Lot, whose case might come to remembrance:

but unto this man do not so vile a thing; as he apprehended that to be which they were desirous of, whether to kill him, as he himself says,

Judges 20:5 or to commit the unnatural sin, and which, rather than comply with, he should have chosen to have been slain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.