Judges 19:1

There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

In Context

2And she left him and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:6And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

Joshua 24:30And they buried him in the border of his possession in Thamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.

Judges 3:27And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel went down with him, he himself going in the front.

Judges 17:1There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim whose name was Michas,

Judges 17:7There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

Judges 18:1In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that day they had not received their lot among the other tribes.

Matthew Henry on Judges 19:1

The three remaining chapters of this book contain a most tragical story of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, patronised by the tribe of Benjamin, for which that tribe was severely chastised and almost entirely cut off by the rest of the tribes. This seems to have been done not long after the death of Joshua, for it was when there was no king, no judge, in Israel ( ver. 1 , and ch. xxi. 25 ), and Phinehas was then high priest, ch. xx. 28 . These particular iniquities, the Danites' idolatry, and the Benjamites'… Read the whole commentary →

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