the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Hakim-hakim 19:25
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Tetapi orang itu tiada mau dengar akan katanya; lalu diambil orang itu akan gundiknya, dibawanya akan dia ke luar kepada mereka itu, maka digagahi oranglah akan dia dan dipercabuli oranglah akan dia semalam-malaman itu sampai pagi hari dan pada waktu fajar dilepaskannya ia pergi.
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
knew her: Genesis 4:1
and abused: Jeremiah 5:7, Jeremiah 5:8, Hosea 7:4-7, Hosea 9:9, Hosea 10:9, Ephesians 4:19
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:2 - defiled her Judges 20:5 - and my concubine
Cross-References
And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.
All these were ioyned together in the vale of Siddim, where [nowe] the salt sea is.
He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But the men would not hearken to him,.... Especially with respect to his daughter, whom they knew very well, and had no affection for, perhaps was not handsome enough for them:
so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; that is, not the old man, but the Levite took his own wife or concubine, and put her forth to them, very probably with her consent, to try if that would pacify them, she being a fair and beautiful woman, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel suggest; and Josephus u intimates, that some young men of the city had seen her in the street, and were captivated with her beauty, and came on purpose for her, and would not be satisfied unless she was delivered to them; and upon which her husband, perceiving this, laid hold on her by main strength, as the word signifies, and brought her out whether she would or not, as Kimchi notes:
and they knew her, and abused her all night until the morning; had carnal knowledge of her, and used her in a most shocking manner one after another, all the night long, until the morning appeared:
and when the day began to spring; at break of day, when the light dawned: they let her go; their works being works of darkness, and would not bear the light.
u Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 8.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 19:25. So the man took his concubine — The word יחזק yachazek, which we here translate simply took, signifies rather to take or seize by violence. The woman would not go out to them; but her graceless husband forced her to go, in order that he might save his own body. He could have but little love for her, and this was the cause of their separation before.
The men of Gibeah who wished to abuse the body of the Levite; the Levite who wished to save his body at the expense of the modesty, reputation, and life of his wife; and the old man who wished to save his guest at the expense of the violation of his daughter; are all characters that humanity and modesty wish to be buried in everlasting oblivion.
When the day began to spring — Their turpitude could not bear the full light of the day; and they dismissed the poor woman when the day began to break.