Judges 19:1
And there was + 19:1 Gr. a man, a Levite.a Levite sojourning in the + 19:1 Gr. thighs.sides of mount Ephraim, and he took to himself a + 19:1 Gr. a woman a concubine.concubine from Bethleem Juda.
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Genesis 25:6But to the sons of his concubines Abraam gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the east into the country of the east.
Joshua 24:30And it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Naue the servant of the Lord died, at the age of a hundred and ten years.
Judges 3:27And it came to pass when Aod came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he was before them.
Judges 17:1And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Michaias.
Judges 17:7And there was a young man in Bethleem of the tribe of Juda, and he was a Levite, and he was sojourning there.
Judges 18:1In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of Dan sought for itself an inheritance to inhabit, because no inheritance had fallen to it until that day in the midst of the tribes of the children of Israel.
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 →