Judices 19:30

Nova Vulgata

Quod cum vidissent singuli, conclamabant: "Numquam res talis facta et visa est in Israel ex eo die, quo ascenderunt patres nostri de Aegypto, usque in praesens tempus!". Praeceperat enim viris, quos miserat, dicens: "Haec dicite omni viro Israel: Si factum est quidquam tale ex die, quo ascenderunt filii Israel de terra Aegypti, usque ad praesentem diem? Attendite ad hoc, consiliamini et decernite quid facto opus sit!".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et Amma et Aphec et Rohob : civitates viginti duæ, et villæ earum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quod cum vidissent singuli, conclamabant: Numquam res talis facta est in Israël, ex eo die quo ascenderunt patres nostri de Ægypto usque in præsens tempus: ferte sententiam, et in commune decernite quid facto opus sit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

consider: Judges 20:7, Proverbs 11:14, Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 15:22, Proverbs 20:18, Proverbs 24:6

Reciprocal: Job 34:4 - choose Proverbs 6:34 - General Jeremiah 2:10 - and see

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was so, that all that saw it,.... The dismembered pieces of the dead body, and were made acquainted with the cause of it; for so Josephus b says, he gave the messengers a command to declare what was the cause of her death:

said, there was no such deed done nor seen, from the day that the children of Israel came out of Egypt, unto this day; meaning not so much the cutting in pieces the dead body, and sending it to different parts; though that was awful and shocking, as the complicated wickedness committed at Gibeah, which was the cause of it, to which reference is had, Hosea 9:9 this is an observation of the writer of this book, Samuel; but what follows are the words either of those the Levite sent, who were bid to deliver them to those to whom the pieces were sent, or else of the persons present at the time of the delivery of the pieces to them, or whom they got together to disclose the matter to:

consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds; well weigh and think of the matter within yourselves, consult with one another what is proper to be done, and give your opinion freely without any reserve.

b Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 8.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 19:30. There was no such deed done nor seen — They were all struck with the enormity of the crime; and considered it a sovereign disgrace to all the tribes of Israel.

Consider of it — Literally, Put it to yourselves; take counsel upon it; and speak. This was the prelude to the council held, and the subsequent operations, which are mentioned in the following chapter.

I HAVE passed over the abominable transactions of this chapter as lightly as I could, and shall make no apology to the learned or unlearned reader for leaving some things untranslated.

What a blessing are wholesome laws, and a vigorous and attentive magistracy! These wretched people had no form of government, and every one did what was right in his own eyes: their own eye (corrupt inclination) was the measure and rule of their conduct; and how bad a rule, the abuse and murder of the Levite's wife testify. Reader, bless God for a civil government.