Judges 19:7

When the Levite got up to leave, the father of the young woman urged him to stay, so he changed his plan and spent the night there again.

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.

In Context

6So the two of them sat down to eat and drink together. Then the girl's father said, “Please be willing to spend the night and have a good time.”

8On the fifth day he woke up early to leave, but the girl's father said, “Strengthen yourself, and wait until the afternoon.” So the two of them had a meal.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:25The king answered Absalom, “No, my son, all of us should not go because we would be a burden to you.” Absalom begged the king, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.

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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