Judges 17:6
no king.18:1; 19:1; 21:3,25; Ge 36:31; De 33:5right.De 12:8; Ps 12:4; Pr 12:15; 14:12; 16:2; Ec 11:9; Jer 44:16,17 Judges 19:1
1 A Levite goes to Beth-lehem to fetch home his concubine.16 An old man entertains him at Gibeah.22 The Gibeonites abuse his concubine to death.29 He divides her into twelve pieces, and sends them to the twelve tribes. when there.17:6; 18:1; 21:25mount.17:1,8; Jos 24:30,33a concubine. Heb. a woman, a concubine, or, a wife, aconcubine. Ge 22:24; 25:6; 2Sa 3:7; 5:13; 16:22; 19:5; 20:3; 1Ki 11:3; 2Ch 11:21Es 2:14; So 6:8,9; Da 5:3; Mal 2:15Beth-lehem-judah.17:8; Ge 35:19; Mt 2:6 Judges 21:25
no.17:6; 18:1; 19:1right.18:7; De 12:8; Ps 12:4; Pr 3:5; 14:12; Ec 11:9; Mic 2:1,2 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JUDGES. The book of Judges forms an important link in the history of the Israelites. It furnishes us with a lively description of a fluctuating and unsettled nation; a striking picture of the disorders and dangers which prevailed in a republic without magistracy; when "the high-ways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through by-ways," (ch. 5:6;) when few prophets were appointed to control the people, and "every one did that which was right in his own eyes." (ch. 17:6.) It exhibits the contest of true religion with superstition; and displays the beneficial effects that flow from the former, and the miseries and evil consequences of impiety. It is a most remarkable history of the long-suffering of God towards the Israelites, in which we see the most signal instances of his justice and mercy alternately displayed: the people sinned, and were punished; they repented, and found mercy. These things are written for our warning: none should presume, for God is just; none need despair, for God is merciful. Independently of the internal evidence of the authenticity of this sacred book, the transactions it records are not only cited or alluded to by other inspired writers, but are further confirmed by the traditions current among heathen nations.
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