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Judges 19:3

Then her husband went after her, to talk kindly with her and bring her back home. With him went his servant and two donkeys. She took him to her father's house and when her father met him, he gladly welcomed him.

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In The King James Version

And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

In Context

2But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father's house in Bethlehem. She was there for four months.

4Her father pressed him to stay with them, so he remained for three days, eating, drinking, and sleeping there.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:21So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calmed them down.

Leviticus 20:10Any man who commits adultery with someone else's wife must be executed, as well as the woman.

Judges 15:1Some time later when the wheat was being harvested, Samson went to pay his wife a visit, taking with him a young goat as a present. “I want to go to my wife in her bedroom,” he said when he arrived, but her father would not let him go in.

Jeremiah 3:1If a man divorces his wife and she goes and marries someone else, could he ever go back to her? Wouldn't the country be made totally unclean by this? But you have done worse by prostituting yourselves with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me? declares the Lord.

Hosea 2:16Then on that day, says the Lord, you will call me ‘my husband’ and not ‘my Baal.’

John 8:4They said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

Matthew Henry on Judges 19:2-16

Elopement of the Levite's Concubine; The Levite Reconciled to His Concubine; The Levite Benighted at Gibeah. ( b. c. 1410.) 1 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 Beth-lehem-judah. 2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months. 3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to… Read the whole commentary →

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