Judges 19:21

So he brought him into his bais, and mixed fodder for the donkeys; and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

In Context

20And the ish hazaken said, Shalom lach; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the rechov.

22Now as they were making their hearts content, hinei, the anshei haIr, anshei bnei Beliya'al, surrounded the bais, and pounded incessantly on the delet, and shouted to the ish, the Ba'al HaBayit, the zaken, saying, Bring out the ish that came into thine bais, that we may know him. + 19:22 a thin line drawn between homosexual rape and murder

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Cross References

Genesis 18:4Let a little water, please, be brought, and wash Thy feet, and rest under haetz (the tree);

Genesis 43:24And the ish brought the anashim into the house of Yosef, and gave them mayim, and they washed their raglayim; and he gave their chamorim mispo (fodder).

2 Samuel 11:8And Dovid said to Uriyah, Go down to thy bais, and wash thy feet. And Uriyah departed out of the Bais HaMelech and there followed after him a masat HaMelech (a present, gift, of the king, i.e. a royal feast).

John 13:4He rises from the seudah and puts aside his me'il and kesones, girding himself with a towel.

1 Timothy 5:10being commended by ma'asim tovim, having brought up banim, having showed hachnosas orchim, having washed the feet of the Kedoshim, having given nechamah (comfort) to the oppressed, having devoted herself to every ma'aseh tov.

Matthew Henry on Judges 19:17-22

The Levite Entertained at Gibeah. ( b. c. 1410.) 16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou? 18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to… Read the whole commentary →

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